[THIN] Re: How much Memory in servers

  • From: Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:57:37 +1000

Hi Malcolm,

Sorry, forgot to give you any supporting info.

The URL below has a good article which touches on a lot of memory
issues and the sizing advantages of 64-bit Windows:

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/RAMVirtualMemoryPageFileEtc.htm

regards,

Rick

Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems

On 5/19/05, Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Malcolm,
> 
> If the data sets that have to be manipulated are big enough, unless
> your application is totally recoded you're probably stuck wih the
> large memory requirement.
> 
> However provided you're in a position to run pure terminal services,
> ther's nothing stopping you getting an opteron or intel Xeon EM64T
> processor-based system, sticking in 16 GB of RAM and loading 64-bit
> Windows. Quite a few Xeon systems already ship with the EM64T chip
> installed so you might even have one to play with.
> 
> Your existing 32-bit code should run fine, but now you've got some
> real memory to play with without the kernel space etc constraints of
> 32-bit windows.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rick
>
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