[BALUG-Talk] Accessing 128GB of RAM

Raj Kumar Gurung grg350 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 12:19:34 PST 2008


These are AMD Opteron Quadcores.


On Feb 8, 2008 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Siegal <jbs at quiotix.com> wrote:

> What kind of CPUs are these?  If they're Intel/AMD, then a quad core
> processor supports 64 bit, and a 32 bit processor can only support (I
> think) up to 64 GB using PAE, but that can be quite slow.  You are
> much better off running in 64 bit mode.  For other types of CPUs the
> issues may be different.
>
> On 2008-02-08, at 10:40 , Raj Kumar Gurung wrote:
>
> >
> > I am in process of assembling a machine with 4 quadcore(32bit)
> > processors and 128Gigs of RAM. I wonder, if it is possible to
> > address the 128G RAM using the 32 bit processors. FYI, I will be
> > running Debian.
> >
> > Any ideas, suggestion would be appreciated
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> >
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