[THIN] Re: Generally speaking - hardware
- From: "Berny Stapleton" <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:37:14 +0100
If anyone wants a report I wrote on the 4GB memory limit a couple of years
ago, let me know. I have offered it on thin list before, so if you want,
reply to me privately.
Berny
2008/7/22 Braebaum, Neil <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Well there's always /3GB but I see your point, there's still no such
> thing as a free lunch.
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk
> > Sent: 21 July 2008 19:37
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Generally speaking - hardware
> >
> > Right on except its 2 GB per process not 4GB. And even with
> > a x64 platform you're still running 32-bit code.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Landin, Mark
> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:25 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Generally speaking - hardware
> >
> > A 32-bit OS cannot provide more than 4GB to a given process.
> > However, a server running 32-bit Windows Server 2003
> > Enterprise edition, for isntance, can address up to 32GB of
> > memory, and dole it out to individual processes as long as
> > each chunk does not exceed 4 GB.
> >
> > In thin computing, it's rare to see any process which
> > requires > 4GB. (CAD, GIS, and other scientific applications
> > are about the only ones that do so). However, it's somewhat
> > easy to find 10 processes each needing 500MB. You could not
> > run the former type of application well on a 32-bit OS, but
> > the latter applications would run fine on a 32-bit OS as long
> > as the OS itself could address more than 4GB in total (which
> > W2K3 Enterprise edition can). Therefore, it's possible you
> > could run 30 users on a heavy app without going 64-bit. Right?
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of GTaylor@xxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 12:43 PM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Generally speaking - hardware
> >
> > That depends on the application. Small applications you may
> > be able to get upwards of 40 users, but that's unusual. A
> > couple things to keep in mind, number 1 being that if your
> > running a 32-bit OS your not going to use more than 4gig, so
> > don't bother putting it in. I also would not run a
> > Presentation Server with less than 4gig. If you want to get
> > 30 users on a heavy application go to 64-Bit and load up the memory.
> >
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Beckett,
> > William (Bill)
> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:37 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Generally speaking - hardware
> >
> > What do most of you run, memory wise for about a 25-30 user
> > load per server for PS 4.0 on W2K3? 4GB memory? Less? More?
>
>
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