so physically it can have more than 8GB of RAM.
-Matt
On May 12, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote:
> Just out of curiosity --
>
> The Mac XServe G% is 64 bit and can have 8 Gig RAM.
>
> Is there anything in OS X that limits the RAM use?
>
> Of course, you can't run SQL-Server on a MAc, but you can nun
> Sybase_ASE, Oracle 9i. PostgreSQL, MySQL and others.
>
> TIA
>
> Dick
>
> On May 12, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Matt Liotta wrote:
>
> > Just to be clear, the general rule on a Windows system is that you
> can
> >��access up to 2GB of RAM from a single process. Windows 2000/2003
> can
> > be
> >��configured to allow for a single process to access 3GB of RAM. If
> you
> >��have Windows 2000/2003 advanced or data center than a single
> process
> >��can access more than 3GB of RAM using non-standard system calls
> i.e.
> > it
> >��has to be written specifically to do that. There is an overhead
> >��associated with all this that makes the effective amount of RAM
> >��available lower than the physical RAM. 64bit systems don't have
> this
> >��problem. I strongly recommend that you use an Opteron-based system
> for
> >��SQL Server if you want to use more than 4GB of RAM.
> >
>
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