John Peter Sabini writes:
> Please excuse this question but I am not a hardware nor sysadmin person. I 
> just need verification of what I suspect to be the truth.
> A client of mine to whom I recommended Solaris 10 has a large sun box with 32 
> gig of memory. Because a third party library isn't supported in 64 bit 
> address space, he is forced to run in 32 bit address space so he will have 
> addressability to approx 4 Gig. I can't risk running the third party package 
> in virtual 32 bit mode. 

Can you explain what you mean by "virtual 32 bit mode?"

> He is running Java applications. 
> 
> Question. Does Solaris operating in 32 bit address configuration not use the 
> the remaining 28 Gig? He insisted that Solaris could use the remaining space. 

I don't quite understand the question, but the kernel is able to make
use of whatever memory you throw at it.  If you run absolutely nothing
else on this box, you'll likely have a lot of cached disk pages.

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