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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:10:27 -0500
From:      "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, "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:  <019b01c00801$13f53380$27430ace@mark8>

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----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: Max Memory question


>
> ----- 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
>

Sorry to reply to myself, but:
http://www.intel.com/design/pentiumii/xeon/prodbref/
states that the p2 xeon supports caching of 64GB of memory, and that intel's
Extended Server Memory Architecture "Breaks through the 4GB barrier."

Josh

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