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SubjectRe: [Devel] Re: [RFC] Virtualization steps
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Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> writes:

> >>Moreover, in OpenVZ live migration allows to migrate 32bit VPSs
> >>between i686 and x86-64 Linux machines.
>
> > How would that work when x86-64 32bit programs have 4GB of address
> > space and native on i386 programs only 3GB?
> we limit address space of i386 apps on x86-64 to 3GB due to
> compatibility issues - some applications don't work with not 3:1 GB VM
> split.

The only program I'm aware of with this problem is an very old JDK
used in the Oracle installer - and the official documented fix
for this is to run it with linux32 --3gb

Limiting everybody just for that single bug seems quite excessive.

-Andi
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