[SGVLUG] wikipedia datacenter, firefox3 uses less mem, + a deal on ram

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why the artificial limitation of 64G?  Hasn't anyone learned?

There is not an artificial limitation of 64G for 32bit PAE it is a
hardware limit sense 32bit PAE processor have a 36bit wide address
bus.

> Matt
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
>> Behalf Of matti
>> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:36 PM
>> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
>> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] wikipedia datacenter, firefox3 uses less mem, + a
>> deal on ram
>>
>>
>> LOL, .. yes, there's FUD all over the place..
>> certainly quite a few in Adverts.
>>
>> why buy Faster RAM than your computer can handle?
>> ( no real reason.. in this case, the price after rebate
>> was really good - and I would have bought it if I
>> hadn't already maxed out my ddr2 system ;)
>>
>> honestly, win-modems/win-printers/win-network cards
>> just suck! stay away from them if you can...
>>
>> even using a core2 system with 4GB of ram, I
>> encounter system/network delays which JUST piss me off.
>> (websites are just getting loaded with crud,
>> yeah I wanted to use a different word... lol )
>>
>> dang! why is it that the back button on browsers
>> doesn't just show me what was there?! instead it reloads
>> the stinking page because the website publisher told
>> us to reload it! Why is it that some browser when you
>> want to save a picture has to reload it?? Thank goodness
>> for the firefox extensions ;)
>>
>> Anyways, IF your system can support it, you probably
>> want to MAX out on the DDR2 RAM when you see a deal,
>> I bought faster RAM than my system can handle, but
>> after the rebate it was a deal and less than I would
>> have purcahsed it at a store. (wish I could get the
>> same prices for DDR ram.)
>>
>> Remember, some MBs have issues with >2BG/>3GB>3.5GB
>> of RAM. (many laptops peak at 2GB)
>>
>> OH, and if you want to address MORE than 4GB of ram..
>> checkout:
>> Physical Address Extension (PAE)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
>>
>> "The operating system uses page tables to map this 4 GB
>> address space onto the 64 GB of total memory, and the
>> map is usually different for each process. In this way
>> the extra memory is useful even though no single regular
>> application can access it all simultaneously."
>>
>> Crud! Can't use more than 4GB per application!
>> Gee, I was hoping to malloc 60GB....
>>
>> cheers
>> matti
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