On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0200 Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at 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, -- Laurent Wandrebeck GPG fingerprint/Empreinte GPG: F5CA 37A4 6D03 A90C 7A1D 2A62 54E6 EF2C D17C F64C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100914/2e4ad92d/attachment-0005.sig>