[BBLISA] Sun addressable memory.

Peter Baer Galvin pbg at cptech.com
Fri Oct 14 17:51:43 EDT 2005


Yes, the V210 can address all of its memory for all of the operating systems
it supports. Of course in my opinion S10 > S9 > S8, if the applications you
want to run are supported on S10. But all should work fine.

 
--Peter
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of Larry P. Schrof
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 5:34 PM
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: [BBLISA] Sun addressable memory.
> 
> I know this sounds ridiculous, but I heard nasty rumors that
> Sun would sell a box with more memory than the OS is capable of
> addressing. Perhaps this is completely false, perhaps it was true
> ten years ago.
> 
> I just need to make sure if I order a Sun Fire V210, that I can address
> all 8 GB (with whatever memory-addressing magic the OS uses).
> I believe a coworker mentioned that, for any one process, it might not
> be able to go above 4 GB. (2^32, right?)
> 
> Can anyone confirm for me the V210's do indeed address all 8 GB of ram?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
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