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George France france at handhelds.orgMon Jun 18 10:30:55 PDT 2001
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On Monday 18 June 2001 11:01, Sean Dilda wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:30:35PM -0700, Adam Shand 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. The total amount of DRAM is not the issue. It is the amount a DRAM that a single process can use. 64Gbyte with a 3Gbyte limit per process is not very useful. He needs a true 64-bit system, like an alpha. --George
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