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Re: How much memory can NW 4.1 efficiently address?

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From: Rainer Hae�ner
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00
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Tom Kustner wrote:
> 
> (Yes, I just posted the question about the 1500 and its max memory).
> 
> Question:  How much memory can NetWare 4.1 efficiently address?  How
> about for 3.12?
> 
> The reason I ask is that I recall seeing some folks say that if you
> kept increasing memory, NetWare would take so long to go through the
> memory to see if a particular file was in its cache, that the response
> was actually slower than having a smaller configuration, where it
> would have to get it off disk.  I would be grateful to told what the
> limit is or if this is simply not true.
> 
> We have 3.12 now.  We are buying another server at some point and,
> while we might not be ready for 4.1 now, we may end up getting it
> sooner or later.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom Kustner
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom Kustner                   Emjay Corporation
> System/LAN Administrator      725 W. Glendale Ave.
> Email: emjay@execpc.com       Glendale, WI  53209-6509  USA
> Any opinions are mine and not necessarily those of Emjay's.Sorry, I dont know the limits for netware itself, but there are
limits concerning the copmputer hardware. usual motherboards are
able to cache 64 MB of RAM only, the remaining RAM is uncacheable but 
useable. Look for the motherboard description.

Rainer Haessner
rh@linda.org.chemie.tu-muenchen.de
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From: Rainer Hae�ner <rh@linda.org.chemie.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: How much memory can NW 4.1 efficiently address?
Date: 1996/06/07
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