| From: | Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: memory |
| Date: | 2002-07-16 12:54:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20020716085443.B22445@mail.libertyrms.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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