[nycbug-talk] Memory sizing

[Francisco Reyes]

Isaac Levy writes:

> First question: what OS do you plan to run?

FreeBSD AMD64 on Opterons CPUs.

> 'PAE', for i386 systems

>From what I have read I need to use the AMD64 version if I want to see/use 
more than 4GB. 

> I've used it on is NOT a heavy-lifter- (it simply runs Samba with  
> TONS of files).

Define tons?
I have one mail machine and one database server I have to setup.
The mail machines we usually have around 3 million files.