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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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