From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Lee Chin <leechin@mail.com>
Cc: "Cannizzaro, Emanuele" <ecannizzaro@mtc.ricardo.com>,
ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: memory allocation on linux
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:03:31 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209192202110.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020920002137.72873.qmail@mail.com>
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Lee Chin wrote:
> I have a process trying to allocate a large amount of memory.
> I have 4 GB physical memory in the system and more with swap space.
> However, I am unable to allocate more than 2GB for my process.
> How can I acheive this?
Switch to a 64-bit CPU. If you link your program statically
you might be able to get up to nearly 3 GB of memory for your
process, but that's the limit...
Rik
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2002-09-20 0:21 Lee Chin
2002-09-20 1:03 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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2002-09-20 14:35 Lee Chin
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2002-08-07 15:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 15:19 Cannizzaro, Emanuele
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