Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 18:44:11 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: max Gb of phys. memory? Message-ID: <E1DU4zr-0009fb-M7@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> <20050506151657.GA24493@dragon.NUXI.org>
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> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:04:25AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > I need to set up a box with 'allot' of phys. memory. so far > > im finding that the amount of memory is per cpu, ie: 8Gb per cpu > > You have 4 or 8 DIMM sockets per CPU, depending on the motherboard. > That is the only limit pertaining to the CPU. Some motherboards can > handle 4GB DIMM's, others 2GB DIMM's, yet others only 1GB DIMM's. ok, i guess i havet to refrase question this is a dual cpu amd board, http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/specificati ons.jsp under Main Memory, it says: ... (4 dimm slots per processor ...) so Q: can ONE process, take advantage of more than 8Gb? btw, i had such a box last week, and run 5.4 very nicely - appart from being a bit noisy, which i was informed is fixed in the newer boxes :-) danny
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