Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/9/10 9:59 AM, Alan Cox wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/9/10 9:04 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischer wrote: During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could

Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Alan Cox
Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/9/10 9:04 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischer wrote: During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. it was put to us that the limi

Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/9/10 9:04 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischer wrote: During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. it was put to us that the limit was currently around 51

Re: limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:45:14 PST Julian Elischer wrote: > During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real > limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. > it was put to us that the limit was currently around 512 GB, though no-one > at teh discus

limits to memory on amd64

2010-11-09 Thread Julian Elischer
During the discussion at MeetBSD the question came up as to what the real limiting factors were with regard to how much RAM a system could have. it was put to us that the limit was currently around 512 GB, though no-one at teh discussion knew what the mechanism of the limitation was or what might