> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:Jeremy@stripped]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:03 PM
> To: Dathan Vance Pattishall
> Cc: 'Tim Cutts'; 'MySQL List'
> Subject: Re: InnoDB filesystem
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:51:27PM -0700, Dathan Vance Pattishall wrote:
> >
> I think that the problem is that it's *not* a 64 bit OS. It's just an
> Intel 32bit box with > 4GB of memory. And sine MySQL doesn't do PAE,
> it'll never see that extra memory.
Intel box with > 4GB? It is possible with a patch like hugemem in Linux but
4GB should only be used 2^32 = 4GB. - The hugemem patch for instance allows
you to use all 16 GB but at a performance penalty.
>
> Jeremy
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