Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-28 Thread Артур Истомин
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:12:14PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with openbsd for amd64

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-28 Thread Alucard
On 2014-10-28 13:27, Артур Истомин wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:12:14PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be

64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with openbsd for amd64 architecture? use-case: working with large in-memory storage for financial applications. thanks.

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-10-26 20:02 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). Current hardware supports only 2^48... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Physical_address_space_details Best Martin

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with openbsd for amd64 architecture? use-case: working with large in-memory storage for financial

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Predrag Punosevac
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram'). would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with openbsd for amd64 architecture? use-case: working with large in-memory storage for financial

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us wrote: ... thanks for the details, but, since i am nowhere close to being a systems programmer, would like to know if there's any chance such support might be added in, in the near future? You're asking whether in the near

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-10-27 1:56 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: if the intended application actually requires larger memory to be accessible, would it be better to go for a non-x86-64 64-bit hardware? 256TB (2^48) should be good enough till 2020.

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
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Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2014-10-27 3:37 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: From owner-misc+m143...@openbsd.org Sun Oct 26 22:22:57 2014 Fix your mail client, please. 256TB (2^48) should be good enough till 2020. it is for a lot of records (data-sets) to held in memory instead of

Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?

2014-10-26 Thread Eric Furman
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: 2014-10-27 1:56 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe mayur...@devio.us: if the intended application actually requires larger memory to be accessible, would it be better to go for a non-x86-64 64-bit hardware? 256TB (2^48) should be good enough