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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Swap space limitions for Linux on parisc
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John wrote:

>P.S. Note that we don't support 64 bit user space processes yet, so you
>would probably find it difficult to consume extreme amounts of swap
>space, since each process can only address ~4Gb of memory.	

(!!!)

*ponders tearing up his code into multiple processes*

The 'yet' above gives me hope; will 64 bit user space processes be
supported anytime soon? Being able to malloc(1<<36) would be nice!

	Duraid