Op donderdag, 1 december 2011 09:39 schreef Casper Wandahl Schmidt
<kalle.pri...@gmail.com>:
See below. I hope MS Outlook does some decent indend so my response is clear -.-
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From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net]
Sent: 30. november 2011 18:51
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Subject: Re: Maximum memory that can be assigned to Tomcat on windows platform
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Casper,
On 11/30/11 3:37 AM, Casper Wandahl Schmidt wrote:
> Another question to ask is, why do you have 8GB memory when running
> 32bit? That is just stupid since 32bit cannot address more than 4GB of
> memory no matter what you do. Any sysadmin should know that right?
That's per process. All reasonably recent 32-bit OSs can address way more than 4GiB internally.
For example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#memory_limits
This is generally done through PAE
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension) which allows 32-bit
OSs to access more than 4GiB at the kernel level, though each process is still
limited to 4GiB.
Aha so I learned something new today :) I'm still puzzled as to how a 32 bit CPU can compute and fetch a memory cell with address above 4GB since it cannot hold this large value. Anyway that is just too much low-level computer science for me, all I ever had was a seven week course on architecture and networking (a single week out of the seven) :)
-Casper
Running a machine with more than 4GiB in 32-bit mode isn't stupid at all IMO. If you have relatively small processes, there's no need for the overhead of 64-bit even if you have 16GiB or more.
- -chris
I have an analogy for you.
If you look out of your window you only see a small part of the world. If you
move your window you wil see another part of the world.
This is what the OS does with PAE. It moves the window on your RAM frequently.
That is why a 32 bits application only sees max. 4GB. That is the size of its
window.
Ronald.
