On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:57:41PM -0700, Bruce Dembecki wrote:
> So I have a question for those who understand developer speak and MySQL
> builds and so on...
>
> Apple announced their new OS earlier this week, including this information
> on the improvements to 64 Bit version using the G5 processor:
>
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/64bit.html
>
> One of our biggest problems to date on our G5 servers is despite the bulk
> ram we have installed, the current Apple OS isn't really 64 Bit so we can't
> give the InnoDB caches more than 2Gb of ram, and thus there are always no
> empty pages.
>
> This statement from Apple stops short of saying the OS was fully 64 bit...
> But I think they are saying that apps such as mysqld will be able to call
> larger chunks of memory, which is what we want.
It sure looks to me like Tiger will remove those limits...
Jeremy
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