From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 20 7:29:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50D437B404 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:29:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E77043F3F for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:29:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geraerts.jo@skynet.be) Received: from ernie.lan.net (74.164-201-80.adsl.skynet.be [80.201.164.74]) by picard.skynet.be (8.12.8/8.12.8/Skynet-OUT-2.21) with ESMTP id h2KFTSEI005191; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:29:28 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Received: from jgeraert by ernie.lan.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18w1yu-0000Ne-00; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:29:24 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:29:24 +0100 From: Jo Geraerts To: Tom Samplonius Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maximum recommended user limits on mail server Message-ID: <20030320152924.GA382@ernie.lan.net> References: <008c01c2ee51$2f8c22f0$d70d10ac@summitoh.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:33:55PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > Often you'll want to compile both 32bit binaries, and 64bit binaries. The > > Xeon has a max addressable memory of 4Gigs (because it's 32bit). I'm > You should probably look that up. Even the lowly Dell Poweredge 2650 > has a 8GB memory limit. Since the PIII (not quite sure) intel introduced Extended paging. Since then these chips have 36 address pins. So it can use 2^36 bytes memory. But i think this whole discussion is useless because we are comparing diffrent architectures. I've no experience with sparcs but i guess it has it's advantages for some applications over a x86. But the other way arround it's also true. Intel creates performance by pushing the clock to the limit, sun creates performance by using it's head and making the architecture more performant. If they could speed up the clockspeed to the same level as intel does, i think it can easily outperform intel. But intel has one big advantage. They are cheap. Greetz, Jo -- /****************************************************************** * Geraerts Jo * Politics: * * geraerts.jo@skynet.be * Poly: many * * http://users.skynet.be/ernie * Ticks: blood sucking parasites * ******************************************************************/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message