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Sean Dilda agrajag at scyld.comMon Jun 18 08:57:34 PDT 2001
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > * Some of our jobs can use upwards of 4Gb of RAM, from my understanding > > > > 3Gb is the maximum that a single process can address with 2.4 kernel. > > > > Is this limitation something that Network Virtual Memory can help with? > > > > > > No. You'll need a real 64-bit chip for this. > > > > Err.. not quite. The 2.4 kernel supports up to 64G of RAM on an ia32 > > machine. > > that's not the question. ia32 is indeed now and forever limited to 4G VM. > and currently, 3G of it is available to the process. What I'm trying to say is that this has changed in the 2.4 kernel. A system can now support up to 64G of RAM with each process able to address up to 4G in the VM. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20010618/f7a18016/attachment.bin
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