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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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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.

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