Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Andy Barber wrote:
>> I read in the Guardian (so it must be true!) that the maximum memory that
>> can be used is 3Gb but that could be just for XP.
>
> Up to XP at least, Windows 32 bit can address only 4GB of memory.
> However, this is split into 2 GB for the user processes in total, and 2
> GB for the 'kernel' processes. It is completely useless to put more than
> 4 GB into a Windows machine for this reason.
>
> Under Windows 2000 server and Windows 2003 server, there are patches you
> can apply (2000) or that have been built in (2003) called something like
> 'large memory system' to up the limit from 2 GB to 3 GB *under certain
> circumstances.
>
> Oracle databases, for example, can use the extra 1GB but only for
> database buffer cache, noit for program units etc.
>
> Not sure whether XP suffers from the 2GB limit or allows 3 GB though.
>
> Linux doesn't have this problem, apparently.
Sure doesn't. Worldnews have a few 8GB ECC systems, and the motherboard
(and Linux) supports up to 32GB or so.
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