> The memory limit (as Solaris is a 64bit OS) would be > 2^64 bytes, which are roughly 16,777,216 Terabytes > > I'm sure you'll agree that this will be enough for a > while :)
No, that's _not_ the limit. Some of the address space (virtual) may be reserved; certainly some of the physical address space is reserved. And not all address lines are necessarily implemented! OTOH, back in the days of 32-bit boxes, some had more than 4GB of RAM. With rare exceptions, I expect that the OS limits are always >= what the hardware it runs on is capable of providing. Terabytes is not unreasonable, petabytes may not be practical for awhile... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
