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List:       openbsd-misc
Subject:    Re: 64-bit amd64 : actual memory limitations?
From:       Артур Истомин <art.istom () yandex ! ru>
Date:       2014-10-28 13:27:10
Message-ID: 20141028132152.GC2144 () localhost
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 09:12:14PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@devio.us> wrote:
> > 64-bit supposedly supports upto 16 exabytes of memory ('ram').
> > would such large capacities actually be possible to ue with
> > openbsd for amd64 architecture?
> > use-case: working with large in-memory storage for financial applications.
> Check for my posts from October or November of last year for dmesg of
> machine with 256 GB or RAM and 64 CPUs which ended as a computing node
> running Red Hat. I have several computing nodes with 512 GB or RAM in
> the lab running Red Hat. if any of them crashes I will use live USB and
> send dmesg.

I am interesting what the purpose of such machines. Science? Commercial
usage?

Also, mundane software like firefox, libreoffice or somethink else
experience any abnormal behaviour on such "abnormal" hardware? Of course
if you tested it.

Thanks.

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