Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jul 2001 16:16:24 -0500 | From | Eric Anderson <> | Subject | Re: BIGMEM kernel question |
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Ahh. That makes sense. So how can I change the chunk size from 64k to something higher (I assume I could set it to 128k to effectively double that 3GB to 6GB)?
Eric Anderson
Alan Cox wrote: > > > kernel. My machine has 4GB of RAM, and 6GB of swap. It appears that I > > can only allocate 2930 MB (using heapc_linux and other programs). What > > do I need to do to get Linux to allow allocation of all available memory > > A non x86 based computer. Its basically impractical to map more than 3Gb of > memory to user space per process on x86. You can use mmap and shared memory > to do DOS EMS like tricks with gig rather than 64K sized chunks but you want > a real 64bit processor to go further > > Alan
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