From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BAFA2CA.FAA0D9CB@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:16:58 +0000 From: Joseph A Knapka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Process not given >890MB on a 4MB machine ????????? References: <5D2F375D116BD111844C00609763076E050D1680@exch-staff1.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Gabriel.Leen" Cc: "'linux-mm@kvack.org'" List-ID: "Gabriel.Leen" wrote: > > Hello again, > And thanks, > > >You will either need to use a true 64-bit machine (POWER, Alpha, > >UltraSPARC or MIPS) > > I hope (fingers crossed) that there is some way around this > I think that Redhat now supports up to 64GB of ram, > as the Xeon has 36 address lines, see attached. > > I'm only grasping at straws here, but I hope that it is somehow possible > on this machine? No. You still only get a maximum of 4GB of -virtual- space per process. The machine can address up to 64GB of -physical- RAM, but a single process (actually a single page directory) can see only 4GB at a time. Sorry :-( -- Joe # Replace the pink stuff with net to reply. # "You know how many remote castles there are along the # gorges? You can't MOVE for remote castles!" - Lu Tze re. Uberwald # Linux MM docs: http://home.earthlink.net/~jknapka/linux-mm/vmoutline.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/