On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandrebeck@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:45:50 +0300 Roland RoLaNd r_o_l_a_n_d@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your feedback..
So if i set my VM to 8 GB, each proccess would use a max of 3 GB (even with PAE installed and selected on boot)?
PAE allows a 32 bits host to see more than 4GB of ram. but each process is still limited to ~3gb. To dive a bit more into technical details, PAE is like EMS in DOS time. In EMS, you saw the whole ram, but couldn't allocate more than 64KB per process. With PAE, the same, with a limit of 4GB-OS stuff per process, so it gives something like 3GB. Hope I'm clear. -- Laurent Wandrebeck GPG fingerprint/Empreinte GPG: F5CA 37A4 6D03 A90C 7A1D 2A62 54E6 EF2C D17C F64C
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.
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?