[rt-users] Hardware Config

[jmoseley at corp.xanadoo.com]

Fair enough.

James Moseley




                                                                           
             Jesse Vincent                                                 
             <jesse at bestpracti                                             
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> I'm definitely not an expert on how mysql utilizes system memory, but on
> 32-bit Linux systems, isn't the max amount of memory a single process can
> use 2 GB?

There are (fairly standard) patches to the kernel to remove that limit.
And there are known issues with mysql on 32 bit linux and using more
than 2 gigs of ram. But Mathew also didn't say they'd gone and installed
32-bit Linux (which can't properly take advantage of their hardware)
instead of a proper 64-bit linux distribution.

There are certainly plenty of issues one should be aware of here. Then
again, if everyone was fully up to speed on all these issues, I might be
out a job ;)

Best,
Jesse