[BBLISA] Sun addressable memory.

[Dean Anderson]

I suspect this may have been true some years ago with SunOS4.1.3, which people
continued to run for many years.  But Solaris can address the memory in 64bit
mode. However, 32bit applications will not be able to address more than 4G per 
process.  For example, there are (or used to be) 32 bit and 64 bit versions of 
Oracle.

		--Dean


On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Larry P. Schrof wrote:

> I know this sounds ridiculous, but I heard nasty rumors that
> Sun would sell a box with more memory than the OS is capable of
> addressing. Perhaps this is completely false, perhaps it was true
> ten years ago.
> 
> I just need to make sure if I order a Sun Fire V210, that I can address
> all 8 GB (with whatever memory-addressing magic the OS uses).
> I believe a coworker mentioned that, for any one process, it might not
> be able to go above 4 GB. (2^32, right?)
> 
> Can anyone confirm for me the V210's do indeed address all 8 GB of ram?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
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