Re: 64 bit computing and SGA bigger than 4 GB

Can't Solaris 7 do it now?

just a thought. I have no actual experience with SGAs this large.

Also, big sgas are definitely different from running native 64bit VLM Oracle, which as
Chris says, is only available on DEC h/w ( oh, whatever, compaq ) for the present...

Christopher M. Day wrote in message
<36CB5D3A.EA8B01BF_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>...
>Andrea,
>
>DEC Alpha GS60, Digital UNIX 4.0d.
>
>6GB SGA, mainly used to prove benefit of caching tables.
>
>Chris.
>
>Andrea Omodeo wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>> I would like to know under which unix architectures it is possible
>> to declare an SGA bigger than 4 GB, if possible.
>> I'm also interested to know which OS level is needed to do this.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, I've been unable to find a comprehensive table
about
>> this topic on the Oracle Web site.
>>
>> Please reply by e-mail, if there are any requests I will summarize the
>> answers on a
>> following post.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Andrew
Received on Thu Feb 18 1999 - 09:03:38 CST