From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: In kvm, a single process cannot allocate more than 3.6GB ram. Why? Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:55:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4B235A73.9040303@redhat.com> References: <4B220ADF.6030709@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Tanel Kokk Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:61256 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757551AbZLLIzN (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:55:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B220ADF.6030709@gmail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/11/2009 11:03 AM, Tanel Kokk wrote: > Does anybody have a glue why process are not able to allocate more than > 3.6GB memory ? > > What should i do to allow process allocate more than 3.6GB memory? Is it > possible at all? > A guest or host process? And what happens when you try? Please describe what you are doing step by step with more details. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.