-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-02-21 at 02:00 -0800, Tommy Pham wrote:
I second that! Here's the math for the limitation. Since computers operate on binary (0s and 1s) and your particular platform is 32 bit: 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 = 4194304 kb = 4096 mb = 4 gb However on a 64 bit: 2^64 = 18446744073709551616 = 16777216 tb ... you won't be reaching it's limit any time soon :D (reaching the limit is in the engineering of the hardware)
Things are not so simple, because these modern 32 bit processors have in fact 36 address lines, being capable of addressing 64 GiB, not 4. With tricks, of course, like PAE (*), because the registers are 32 bit wide. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHvWC7tTMYHG2NR9URApVXAJ4tb/51xE1yK+QNK6mrL2BpCNW+PwCgg6dE HSTATmR+kh9Aghztm7QRCNM= =YKOx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org