Re: memory

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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