lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2001]   [Oct]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: "3.5GB user address space" option.
Date17 Oct 2001 21:38:35 -0700
Followup to:  <1981072193242.20011018021819@spylog.com>
By author:    "Oleg A. Yurlov" <kris@spylog.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 
>         Hi, folks,
> 
>         How  I  can  use  3.5GB  in my apps ? I try malloc() and get error on 2G
> bounce... :-(
> 
>         Hardware - SMP server, 2Gb RAM, 8Gb swap, kernel 2.4.12aa1.
> 

Get a 64-bit CPU.  You're running into a fundamental limit of 32-bit
architectures.

	-hpa
-- 
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt	<amsp@zytor.com>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:08    [from the cache]
©2003-2008