Re: Can anyone advice about AMD Opteron 64-bit

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:14:19 -0800, Edzard wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to increase the total SGA size above the current limit on a
> 32-bit Linux/Intel platform. This limit is about 1.7 Gb on a Suse
> SLES8 (United Linux V1.0) installation with Oracle 9iDB v. 9.2.0.3.
>
> Now I consider Oracle9i Database Release 2 for Linux x86_64. That runs
> on the AMD Opteron 64-bit processor (the hammer). This should allow
> VLM, e.g. 4 Gb.
>
> Can anyone advice if this assumption is correct?
>
> Thanks, Edzard Pasma

Very few opteron motherboards actually work with Linux. If you want 64 bit oracle, there is always Itanic (IA64).

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