Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Oleg Zabluda) | Subject | Re: kcore and memory questions | Date | 5 Aug 1996 15:31:10 GMT |
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Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk) wrote: : > For the current implementations the absolute limits are the 36 bits : > address bus (== 64GB) and 1TB virtual addrss space for user programs. This : > shouldn't really be a limit for anyone (no, don't mmap your TB raid array ...) : > but iff there is room in the architecture to grow the user address space up : > to 2^63 bytes (8 Exabytes), the physical address space up to 2^56 bytes (64 : > Petabytes). Numbers that are pretty insane huge ... : > : : Don't say that, those are famous last words (rember that a certain Gates : is supposed to have said that 640k is enough for anyone ...).
See http://microsoft.is.lame.org:8001/~chris/HATE/gallery/angry.jpg for more on this issue.
Oleg.
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