Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:01:37 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org>, "Joel Bjork" <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Cc: "Jeff Soule" <hosting@webcrossing.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Max Memory question Message-ID: <019401c007ff$d7eb9790$27430ace@mark8> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008161701590.86882-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
----- Original Message ----- From: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: "Joel Bjork" <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Cc: "Jeff Soule" <hosting@webcrossing.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 7:03 PM Subject: RE: Max Memory question > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joel Bjork mumbled: > > > If I recall correctly the 4GB memory limit is due to the x86 structure. There > > is some info on this on the cdrom.com homepage but I can't find it. Basically > > it said that they were thinking of moving to Alpha architecture to be able to > > handle more requests. > > I thought that I heard somewhere that the Intel Xeon processors > supported 36-bit memory addressing... thus upping it's limit to 32GB. > > Could anyone confirm this? > > // Linh Pham > // http://closedsrc.org > > I was unable to confirm a 32GB limit, but I did find some info on the Intel 450NX chipset which supports 4 P3 Xeon processors and 8GB of memory. Josh > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?019401c007ff$d7eb9790$27430ace>