From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 16:40:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3FC37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.smartrafficenter.org (pacer.smartrafficenter.org [207.14.56.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C48943E4A for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpieckiel@mail.smartrafficenter.org) Received: (qmail 84741 invoked by uid 1500); 22 Oct 2002 23:39:51 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:39:51 -0400 From: "Kevin A. Pieckiel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dell server with 6 GB RAM Message-ID: <20021022233951.GA84639@pacer.dmz.smartrafficenter.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I'm looking at buying a Dell PowerEdge 2650. These servers can come with up to 6 GB RAM according to Dell's web site. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but what good does that much RAM do when I only have a 32-bit address space? What am I missing here? How can the hardware or the OS support more than 4 GB RAM? Kevin Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died... -- Larry Wall --- This message was signed by GnuPG. E-Mail kpieckiel-pgp@smartrafficenter.org to receive my public key. You may also get my key from wwwkeys.us.pgp.net; my ID is 0xF1604E92 and will expire on 01 January 2003. --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9teHFc3iJbvFgTpIRAlZLAJ982mkgaiUv1QO2gjkBowDth4KXlACfbAxv B6oAiGXjSbvJN71BXJ0vC+Q= =quuj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message