You can also use pae for any one process to address 4 GB of ram on a 32 bit system.
-- DVP > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Cutts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:05 PM > To: Adam Erickson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MySQL Cluster > > > On 14 Apr 2004, at 10:57 pm, Adam Erickson wrote: > > > (This is probably not the best place for this post, but here goes...) > > > > The (soon to be released) MySQL cluster software docs use a "sample" > > cluster node configured with Dual Xeons and 16GB of ram. MySQL has > > never been able to use more than 2 gigs of system memory (on 32 bit > > platforms.) With MySQL Cluster, will MySQL finally start using the > > memory paging trick Oracle and others have been using for years? > > Otherwise, what is the point of having 16 gigs of ram for one MySQL > > server? > > Disk cache. Tables which MySQL doesn't have in its own buffers but > which nevertheless are frequently accessed will already be in RAM, and > therefore faster to access. > > Even so, you'd probably do better with a 64 bit processor with that > amount of memory. > > Tim > > -- > Dr Tim Cutts > Informatics Systems Group > Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute > Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
