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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:39:17 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: max physical memory per process?
Message-ID:  <2DBB9BDD-E561-11D7-A63B-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200309122019.h8CKJXM1005763@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits
> set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical
> memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory
> that a process can allocate?  In particular, if I have
> a Tyan K8W (dual opteron platform) with 16 GB of memory,
> can my numerical simulation allocate up 15+ GB?

If FreeBSD takes advantage of the Opteron as a 64-bit (LP) platform, 
yes.  Otherwise, you're probably limited to around 3 GB.

-- 
-Chuck



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