Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:45:20 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What ever happened to Terasolutions? Message-ID: <445165A0.6060505@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <cone.1146179037.152247.60005.5001@35st-server.simplicato.com> References: <200604211034.k3LAY0TP096656@lurza.secnetix.de> <cone.1146179037.152247.60005.5001@35st-server.simplicato.com>
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Francisco Reyes wrote: > Oliver Fromme writes: > >> (In other words: PAE might enable you to use RAM >= 4 GB, >> but your processes will still be limited to 32bit address >> space.) > > Thanks for the pointer. > That is a good reason to go AMD64 if one has apps which will require > lots of RAM, although I can't think of any program I use ever needing > 4GB+ for a single program. PostgreSQL uses shared buffers. The address space for each server process could easily exceed 4 GB unless SYSVSHM is a special case.
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