Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:36:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | Kiril Vidimce <> | Subject | Re: large memory support for x86 |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > 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.
Allocate = malloc(). The process needs to be able to operate on >4 GB chunks of memory. I understand that it's only a 32 bit address space which is why I was surprised when I read that Linux 2.4.x will support upwards of 64 GB's of memory.
Thanks for all the responses.
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