On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Laurent Wandrebeck <l.wandrebeck at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:45:50 +0300 > Roland RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d at 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? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532