On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:12:15 -0700 Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So what is the ceiling on 32-bit processors for RAM? Most of the > 64-bit vendors are pushing Athalon64 and G5 as "breaking the 4GB > barrier", and even I can do the math on 2^32. All these 64-bit > vendors, then, are talking about the limit on ram *per application* > and not per machine? You can have > 4GB per app, but also you get a big performance boost as you don't have to deal with all the silly paging - think of it from when we switched from real mode to protected mode. If you check out hte linux-kernel archives you'll see one of the things often recommended when things go odd is to turn off HIMEM support. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
