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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 04:57:41 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit ..
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Hi,

> Cool. Sorry to be pestering about the 64-bit limits, but can we really
> use 2^64 bytes of memory on ia64/ppc64/x86-64 etc.? (AFAIK, 64-bit
> arches don't suffer from a small ZONE_LOWMEM.)

For ppc64 our current maximum is 2TB and so far the biggest machine we
have tested on is 512GB.

Anton