Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

Stefan Smietanowski
2005-07-22T21:05:02Z

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Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:00:18PM +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
>
>>>You cant have 16GB of Memory with 32bit CPUs.
>>
>>PAE
>>CONFIG_HIGMEM64G
>>Supports a 36bit address space, which Xeons do support.
>
>
> Yes right, I was just not aware recent hardware (still) supports that. I
> mean even mit 2MB modules most of them are specified only to 8GB. I would
> consider buying such a system quite foolish. All of the HP servers with 12GB
> and more seem to support EM64T. Do you know vendors who ship non-EM64T
> servers with more than 16GB?

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/xeon/index.htm

Shows that the lowest speed Xeon with EM64T is 2.83GHz.

http://commerce.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config/frameset.asp?c=607&n=3410&b=62417&m=gbp&cs=ukbsdt1&sbc=ukbsdpedge&v=d&cu=etstore&l=en&s=ukbsd&store=ukbsd

Shows a system taking 1-4 of those processors at 2.0, 2.2, 2.7 and
3.0GHz, making them 32bit only.

Memory you can configure is from 1GiB (4x256MiB) to 32GiB (16x2GiB).

If I'd buy a server I wouldn't buy one of those however, I'm just
answering the question.

Disclaimer: I do not have anything to do with either of the above
mentioned vendors. I just looked up the first vendor that came into
my head.

// Stefan
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