Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0200 Rudi Ahlers Rudi@SoftDux.com wrote:

Even so, most machines today performs multiple tasks, so 3GB limit per process isn't really that big an issue, unless you render graphics with a mono-threaded application.

Depends the domain :) We work in satellite images processing here, so 3GB per process is an issue. Moreover, PAE memory access is far from optimal. You're better run a 64 bits OS with 32 apps than a 32 bits PAE enables, imho.

On servers you generally have more than one process running so the whole experience will sitll be a good one with 4GB+ RAM, upto 32GB if memory serves me right?

Don't know about upper limit of PAE. Wikipedia says 64GB. Regards,