I didnt think fbsd's smp capabilities were more than primitive, Linux or
Solaris perhaps??

    Bri

----- Original Message -----
From: "Irvine Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:16 AM
Subject: Max RAM usage


> Hi All
>
> We're thinking of buying a very big Intel box for scientific computing
here.
>
> Anyone have any opinions as to how FreeBSD would match up to an Intel
> server with over 8GB RAM and 4CPUs? The particular machine we're looking
> at will go up to 24GB RAM.
>
> I was under the impression that any 32 bit application could not in
> itself address more than 4GB of data.  Is this the case?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>
> Irvine Short
>
> Sys Admin
> SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
> http://www.sanbi.ac.za
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>
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