Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:10:27 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org>, "Joel Bjork" <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Cc: "Jeff Soule" <hosting@webcrossing.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Max Memory question Message-ID: <019b01c00801$13f53380$27430ace@mark8>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org>; "Joel Bjork" <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Cc: "Jeff Soule" <hosting@webcrossing.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 11:01 PM Subject: Re: Max Memory question > > ----- 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 > Sorry to reply to myself, but: http://www.intel.com/design/pentiumii/xeon/prodbref/ states that the p2 xeon supports caching of 64GB of memory, and that intel's Extended Server Memory Architecture "Breaks through the 4GB barrier." Josh > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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