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Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>

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From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
To: Postgres General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-11-12T22:02:52Z
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On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Sam Mason wrote:

> You only need a 64bit address space when each process wants to see  
> more
> than ~3GB of RAM.

And how exactly do you get that on a 32-bit CPU?  Even with PAE  
(shudders from memories of expanded/extended RAM in the DOS days), you  
still have a 32-bit address space per-process.