Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:06:00 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-core and 4GB |
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
> Hello, > > Looking at the thread of Interl Dual-core and 4GB a sudden thought came to my > mind: "Hey, I'm gonna upgrade my box to 4G next week too... Would it work?" > > Thus, the question - would I be able to use whole 4G RAM with dual-core amd > and kernel with SMP compiled for i686?
Yes but you would only be able to malloc 3GB per process. Go with the x86_64 kernel and that goes away. we have x86_x64's with 16GB of ram.
> Thanks in advance! > > Vladimir >
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