2GB limit?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:52:21 +0200 (EET), Catalin BOIE
<util en deuroconsult.ro> said:

> Hi!
> I need to setup a machine with 256MB RAM (maybe 512MB) for a database
> server. I will have a database with size more than 2GB. Can I do it with
> kernel 2.2.x? 

Many database products let you spread a database over multiple files, in
which case the 2GB limit isn't necessarily a problem.  If you really
want a single file larger than that, then for 2.2 you are limited to
using a 64-bit platform such as Alpha or Sparc64.  2.4 will support
larger files on ia32, too.

--Stephen

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