> From: Andrew Miehs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 32bit OSes can not use more than 4GB RAM. What you are probably > referring > to is PAE, and there the kernel splits the 'extra' memory into > chunks, and > can give each process part of this chunk - a single process however, > under > linux can not use more than 2GB (or 3GB) of RAM (depending on how the > kernel was compiled)
Let's be clear about the distinction between "OS" and "process managed by OS": - The OS as a whole can manage > 4 Gbytes of physical memory using PAE; - On some OSs (Linux, perhaps?), a user process cannot be allocated > 4 Gbytes of RAM; - On other OSs (Windows), a user process *can* be allocated > 4 Gbytes of RAM. Microsoft SQL Server (2000 Enterprise and up) use the facilities built into Windows 2000 and up to allocate PAE memory to the sinle SQL Server process. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]