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I believe the idea is to hold as much of the DB in memory as possible, for speed, so huge RAM totals on DB servers are not unusual. 384 GB should be well within modern OS reach. Once you're computing at 64 bits, the next theoretical limit on addresses would be somewhere around 16 million terabytes.

edit: wrong number



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