System information
8 Chapter 1 Introducing Mac OS X Server
What’s New in Snow Leopard Server
Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard oers major enhancements in several key areas:
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64-Bit Operating System
To accommodate the enormous amounts of memory being added to today’s servers,
Snow Leopard Server has a 64-bit operating system to support up to a theoretical
16 TB of RAM. With more RAM, server applications can use more physical memory and
consequently run faster. In addition, the 64-bit operating system dramatically improves
the total number of simultaneous system processes, threads, and network connections
that the server can use.
Snow Leopard Server supports the latest 64-bit technology on today’s Xserve and
Mac Pro systems while maintaining 32-bit support for other systems. On all systems,
Mac OS X Server can run 64-bit and 32-bit applications concurrently, address large
amounts of RAM, and access 64-bit le systems and math and image libraries.