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Subject: Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Martin_Schr=C3=B6der?= <mar...@oneiros.de>
To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@devio.us>
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2014-10-26 20:02 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@devio.us>:
> 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram').
Current hardware supports "only" 2^48...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Physical_address_space_details
Best
Martin
if the intended application actually requires larger memory to be
accessible, would it be better to go for a non-x86-64 64-bit hardware?
if yes, could you please recommend something easily available?
and yes, i would really prefer it being supported by openbsd.
thanks.
