Re: Process not given >890MB on a 4MB machine ?????????

[Joseph A Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net>]

"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 :-(

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