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On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits
> set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical
> memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory
> that a process can allocate?  In particular, if I have
> a Tyan K8W (dual opteron platform) with 16 GB of memory,
> can my numerical simulation allocate up 15+ GB?

If FreeBSD takes advantage of the Opteron as a 64-bit (LP) platform, 
yes.  Otherwise, you're probably limited to around 3 GB.

-- 
-Chuck