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From: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org>
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Subject: Re: Max RAM usage
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:39:55 -0800
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I didnt think fbsd's smp capabilities were more than primitive, Linux or
Solaris perhaps??

    Bri

----- Original Message -----
From: "Irvine Short" <irvine@sanbi.ac.za>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:16 AM
Subject: Max RAM usage


> Hi All
>
> We're thinking of buying a very big Intel box for scientific computing
here.
>
> Anyone have any opinions as to how FreeBSD would match up to an Intel
> server with over 8GB RAM and 4CPUs? The particular machine we're looking
> at will go up to 24GB RAM.
>
> I was under the impression that any 32 bit application could not in
> itself address more than 4GB of data.  Is this the case?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>
> Irvine Short
>
> Sys Admin
> SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
> http://www.sanbi.ac.za
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> cel: +27-82-494 3828
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