Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | | Subject | Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:10:55 -0500 (EST) |
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>> Processes can have more than one segment, and 32-bit virtual address >> spaces can themselves be made virtual. I suppose one could say that >> the following hack uses segments to implement paging of a 36-bit >> virtual address space. > > All segments map onto the same 4Gig virtual space
I told you I was aware of that. Read the post again. Hint: at any one point in time, most segments are invalid. Another hint: the 4 kB pages need not be used at all.
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