[SGVLUG] wikipedia datacenter, firefox3 uses less mem, + a deal on ram

[Matt Campbell]

Why the artificial limitation of 64G?  Hasn't anyone learned?

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
> Behalf Of matti
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:36 PM
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] wikipedia datacenter, firefox3 uses less mem, + a
> deal on ram
> 
> 
> LOL, .. yes, there's FUD all over the place..
> certainly quite a few in Adverts.
> 
> why buy Faster RAM than your computer can handle?
> ( no real reason.. in this case, the price after rebate
> was really good - and I would have bought it if I
> hadn't already maxed out my ddr2 system ;)
> 
> honestly, win-modems/win-printers/win-network cards
> just suck! stay away from them if you can...
> 
> even using a core2 system with 4GB of ram, I
> encounter system/network delays which JUST piss me off.
> (websites are just getting loaded with crud,
> yeah I wanted to use a different word... lol )
> 
> dang! why is it that the back button on browsers
> doesn't just show me what was there?! instead it reloads
> the stinking page because the website publisher told
> us to reload it! Why is it that some browser when you
> want to save a picture has to reload it?? Thank goodness
> for the firefox extensions ;)
> 
> Anyways, IF your system can support it, you probably
> want to MAX out on the DDR2 RAM when you see a deal,
> I bought faster RAM than my system can handle, but
> after the rebate it was a deal and less than I would
> have purcahsed it at a store. (wish I could get the
> same prices for DDR ram.)
> 
> Remember, some MBs have issues with >2BG/>3GB>3.5GB
> of RAM. (many laptops peak at 2GB)
> 
> OH, and if you want to address MORE than 4GB of ram..
> checkout:
> Physical Address Extension (PAE)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
> 
> "The operating system uses page tables to map this 4 GB
> address space onto the 64 GB of total memory, and the
> map is usually different for each process. In this way
> the extra memory is useful even though no single regular
> application can access it all simultaneously."
> 
> Crud! Can't use more than 4GB per application!
> Gee, I was hoping to malloc 60GB....
> 
> cheers
> matti
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