Re: AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-core and 4GB

[Joel Jaeggli]

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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