limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Julian Elischer
During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. it was put to us that the limit was currently around 512 GB, though no-one at teh discussion knew what the mechanism of the limitation was or what

Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. it was put to us that the limit was currently around 512 GB, though no-one

Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/9/10 9:04 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischerjul...@freebsd.org wrote: During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. it was put to us that the limit was

Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Alan Cox
Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/9/10 9:04 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischerjul...@freebsd.org wrote: During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. it was put

Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/9/10 9:59 AM, Alan Cox wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/9/10 9:04 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischerjul...@freebsd.org wrote: During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much