Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:16:04 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: large memory support for x86 |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kiril Vidimce wrote:
> My primary concern is whether a process can allocate more than 4 GB of > memory, rather than just be able to use more than 4 GB of physical > memory in the system.
Define allocate. There are tricks you can play, but userspace is still a flat 32-bit address space per-process.
> Also, I see that the highmem support is just an option in the kernel. > Does this mean that there is a significant performance penalty in using > this extension?
It doesn't come for free, but it's almost certainly a win for anyone who has that much memory.
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