Re: memory allocation on linux

["Lee Chin" <leechin@mail.com>]

Hi
>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...
Is that on a 32 bith machine that I can get upto 3GB?  I have linked statically, but yet I max out at 2 GB.  I thoiught with th elatest kernel, which already includes the BIGMEM patch, I should be able to go upto 3GB.

Thanks
Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Date: 	Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:03:31 -0300 (BRT)
To: Lee Chin <leechin@mail.com>
Subject: Re: memory allocation on linux


> 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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