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From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org>,
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Subject: Re: Max Memory question
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:01:37 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To: "Joel Bjork" <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
Cc: "Jeff Soule" <hosting@webcrossing.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 7:03 PM
Subject: RE: Max Memory question


> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joel Bjork mumbled:
>
> > If I recall correctly the 4GB memory limit is due to the x86 structure.
There
> > is some info on this on the cdrom.com homepage but I can't find it.
Basically
> > it said that they were thinking of moving to Alpha architecture to be
able to
> > handle more requests.
>
> I thought that I heard somewhere that the Intel Xeon processors
> supported 36-bit memory addressing... thus upping it's limit to 32GB.
>
> Could anyone confirm this?
>
> // Linh Pham
> // http://closedsrc.org
>
>

I was unable to confirm a 32GB limit, but I did find some info on the Intel
450NX chipset which supports 4 P3 Xeon processors and 8GB of memory.

Josh

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