klaus.grote@web.de (Klaus Grote) wrote in message news:<93bac7d6.0407112312.55a8baff@posting.google. com>...
> 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

We have 2 CPUs installed. I can't tell from your comment what
significance that is. Does this mean that the Blade 2000 can't
efficiently run a program with a working set of more than 8GB?

Daniel Feenberg