drfremove@nber.org (Daniel Feenberg) wrote in message news:<41e0307b.0407110639.6a13084f@posting.google. com>...
> We have a Sun Blade 2000 with 16GB of memory running Solaris as
> supplied by Sun. It seems to limit the working set size (reported by
> top) to 8GB for a single process, although it will allocate up to
> 13.9GB to that process. Is this a limitation of the HW/OS or is there
> a tunable configuration parameter we can change to allow a larger
> wroking set? We really need a large working set - it is ok if only one
> large job executes. The application is a statistical package called
> Stata.
>
> Daniel Feenberg
> feenberg isat nber dotte org

You need a seconf cpu, the memory management unit is on the cpi-die,
the SPARC III cpu's max addressable RAM is 8 GB.

CU
Klaus Grote
DNS GmbH