limitation
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4009
Dick
On May 12, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Matt Liotta wrote:
> I don't believe that is true with the G5; only the G4.
>
> -Matt
>
> On May 12, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote:
>
> > I found an answer at:
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/
> > ManagingMemory/Concepts/AboutMemory.html
> >
> > The OS X limit is 4 Gig RAM per process.
> >
> > Jobs is supposed to preview Tiger (the next OS X) at Apple's WDDC
> > dev
> > conference at the end of June -- Haven't heard any rumors -- moping
> > for
> > more RAM support & DB-based file system.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> > On May 12, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Ben Doom wrote:
> >
> > > OS X and OS X Server support up to 8GB, so putting more in
> wouldn't
> > > really help.
> > >
> > > AFAIK, other than the 8GB limit, there's nothing inherent about
> OS
> > X
> > > (or
> > > the BSD core for that matter) that would prevent a given app
> from
> > > using
> > > as much of that as it wanted.
> > >
> > > Technically, you could run MS-SQL Server on the Mac, but since
> it
> > > would
> > > be running in Windows in an emulator, it really wouldn't do you
> any
> > > good. :-)
> > >
> > > --Ben Doom
> > >
> > > Matt Liotta wrote:
> > >
> > > > You'd have to check with Apple on that. XServe G5s have 8
> DIMM
> > > slots,
> > > > so physically it can have more than 8GB of RAM.
> > > >
> > > > -Matt
> > > >
> > > > On May 12, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Just out of curiosity --
> > > > >
> > > > > The Mac XServe G% is 64 bit and can have 8 Gig RAM.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there anything in OS X that limits the RAM use?
> > > > >
> > > > > Of course, you can't run SQL-Server on a MAc, but you can
> nun
> > > > > Sybase_ASE, Oracle 9i. PostgreSQL, MySQL and others.
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA
> > > > >
> > > > > Dick
> > >
> >
>
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