From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3CCAFC69.8090306@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:30:49 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: memory exhausted References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020424145006.00b17cb0@notes.tcindex.com> <20020425025753.GJ26092@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Rik van Riel , Vivian Wang , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > This is larger than the virtual address space of i386 machines, > but not larger than the physical address space. In principle, an > executive taking advantage of 36-bit physical addressing extensions and > performing its own memory management on the bare metal could perform an > in-core sort on a 36-bit physical addressing -capable 32-bit machine, > e.g. i386-style PAE/highmem machines and some 32-bit MIPS machines. A > kernel module could also in principle take advantage of the kernel's > low-level memory management facilities to perform such an in-core sort. > While possible, this is absolutely not recommended. > Good God, I hope x86-64 catches on soon and kills off this PAE silliness... -hpa -- 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/