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uhhh guys i bought SuSe 7.2 a while back and i was rummaging one of these days and i saw that the operating system can hold 64 Gigs OF RAM! ...
  1. 10-01-2003 #1
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    64 gigs of ram



    uhhh guys i bought SuSe 7.2 a while back and i was rummaging one of these days and i saw that the operating system can hold 64 Gigs OF RAM! now im pretty sure thats for server purposes or clustering only but say i had a server taht just happened to have the capability of holding that much ram, what could i do with it? anyways jut thought it was funny to thnk what would happen to windows 95 if you loaded it wtiht that much ram hahaha probibly mess it up and get an error "your computer is not slow enough, take some ram out"
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    Heavy duty Database Servers typically have 2GB+ RAM, and depending on the application and load of the machine, maybe more.
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    Where do you come from? I've been running 64 GB of RAM for ages!!!



    btw...welcome to the board, xlulux!
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    AMD Athlon 2000+
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    G3 366
    320MB SO-DIMM
    Single-boot: OSX 10.2.6




    tehehehe nice try dude , i have 160 mb so i shouldnt talk[/u]
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    If you're going to quote my sig., just copy/paste, don't edit it!!!

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    He's just not listing his super computer-linux-super-cluster on his sig... the stats would likely crash the server... but man I tell you.. thats one monster of a machine!
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    so you have seen this monster?

    wow i would prolly pass out to see that much ram in a room. i want a hard drive made all out of ram , i heard back somewhere that it was possible, but wouldnt everything get cleared out since its ram and not rom
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    Re: so you have seen this monster?

    Quote Originally Posted by xlulux
    wow i would prolly pass out to see that much ram in a room. i want a hard drive made all out of ram , i heard back somewhere that it was possible, but wouldnt everything get cleared out since its ram and not rom
    Not if you wrote it to a disk every 5 mins. I beleve thats what shared memory databases do.
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    But it would be fun to have harddisks as fast as ram 1 gig transfer pr. second if I rember things correctly
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    We run unix machines with hundred user systems and in production the machine has 6 gig ram.
    ibm machines, so risc ppc chip.
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