SOT: Mac RAM was Re: The other shoe drops

Just out of curiosity -- The Mac XServe G% is 64 bit and can have 8 Gig RAM. Is there anything in OS X that limits the RAM use? Of course, you can't run SQL-Server on a MAc, but you can nun Sybase_ASE, Oracle 9i. PostgreSQL, MySQL and others. TIA Dick On May 12, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Matt Liotta wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

You'd have to check with Apple on that. XServe G5s have 8 DIMM slots, so physically it can have more than 8GB of RAM. -Matt On May 12, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

OS X and OS X Server support up to 8GB, so putting more in wouldn't really help. AFAIK, other than the 8GB limit, there's nothing inherent about OS X (or the BSD core for that matter) that would prevent a given app from using as much of that as it wanted. Technically, you could run MS-SQL Server on the Mac, but since it would be running in Windows in an emulator, it really wouldn't do you any good.  :-) --Ben Doom Matt Liotta wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I found an answer at: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ ManagingMemory/Concepts/AboutMemory.html The OS X limit is 4 Gig RAM per process. Jobs is supposed to preview Tiger (the next OS X) at Apple's WDDC dev   conference at the end of June -- Haven't heard any rumors -- moping for   more RAM support & DB-based file system. Dick On May 12, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Ben Doom wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I don't believe that is true with the G5; only the G4. -Matt On May 12, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

According to this article it is an OS X limitation, not a G5/G4 limitation http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4009 Dick On May 12, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----