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Virtual Memory I: the problem
Virtual Memory I: the problem
Posted Mar 11, 2004 17:23 UTC (Thu) by parimi (subscriber, #5773)Parent article: Virtual Memory I: the problem
Jon, Thanks for such an informative article!
I thought SGI's Altix was able to handle a huge amount of memory. Does anyone know if SGI's kernel also uses the 4G/4G patch?
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Altix
Posted Mar 11, 2004 17:30 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]
"I thought SGI's Altix was able to handle a huge amount of memory. Does anyone know if SGI's kernel also uses the 4G/4G patch?"
I do believe that Altix systems are Itanium-based, so they don't have to deal with all this obnoxious stuff.
Virtual Memory I: the problem
Posted Mar 20, 2004 1:35 UTC (Sat) by mysticalreaper (guest, #20326) [Link]
As the other reply stated, SGI's altix runs on Intel's Itanium 2 processors, which are 64 bit, and thus, can address a silly amount of memory (2^64 bytes) and so do not suffer these silly problems.