more than 2gb of memory

Erwan David erwan at rail.eu.org
Thu Apr 3 07:44:14 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:36:11AM CEST, Erwan David <erwan at rail.eu.org> said:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:29:33AM CEST, "Victor M. Blood" <root at masm.elcom.ru> said:
> > On 03.04.2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > with ulimit
> > 
> > > on i386 - i don't know if 2 or 3GB is a limit.
> > > on amd64 - essentially no limit
> > 
> > ussage of amd is impossible, current machine is Intel Xeon.
> 
> Intel 64 bit processors of the pentium family (ie EMT 64) are
> compatible with amd64 arch.

Here is what I use :

from dmesg.boot
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU            2160  @ 1.80GHz (1795.57-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6f2  Stepping = 2
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0xe39d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  Cores per package: 2

uname -m
amd64

-- 
Erwan


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