Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 May 2002 22:33:24 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: x86 question: Can a process have > 3GB memory? |
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> You can go to 3.5GB, anything more and stuff starts getting real tight > and not very nice. You can only do 3.5/0.5 on non-PAE, though - PAE > requires segments to be aligned on 1GB-boundaries. > > The attached patch (for which credit goes elsewhere - Ingo or Randy, I > think?) implements the full range of 1 to 3.5GB user space partitioning, > selectable at compile-time.
The trouble with this is that on a machine with enough memory to make it worthwhile, it normally just runs you out of zone_normal instead ;-(
M.
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