Re: memory - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: memory
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Msg-id 20020716085443.B22445@mail.libertyrms.com
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In response to memory  ("David Blood" <david@matraex.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:09:59PM -0600, David Blood wrote:
> Anyone use postgres on hardware with more than 4gb ram?  Can you use
> more memory than that with freebsd?

We use PostgreSQL on 16-gig Sun machines.  But they're 64 bit
processors, and therefore have no trouble seeing more than 4 Gig.

Any 32-bit x86-based system is going to have some kind of evil hack
lurking around the 4 Gig mark.  It's just an inherent limitation of a
32-bit address space.

A

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