Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:05:36 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk |
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> >> 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.
And you are going to do pagein/pageout by what chunks?
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