From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "3.5GB user address space" option.
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:09:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011018110914.J12055@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1981072193242.20011018021819@spylog.com> <9qlmcb$4h4$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <9qlmcb$4h4$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:38:35PM -0700
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:38:35PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <1981072193242.20011018021819@spylog.com>
> By author: "Oleg A. Yurlov" <kris@spylog.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> >
> > Hi, folks,
> >
> > How I can use 3.5GB in my apps ? I try malloc() and get error on 2G
> > bounce... :-(
> >
> > Hardware - SMP server, 2Gb RAM, 8Gb swap, kernel 2.4.12aa1.
> >
>
> Get a 64-bit CPU. You're running into a fundamental limit of 32-bit
> architectures.
Actually 3.5G per-process is theoretically possible using a careful
userspace as Rik suggested with -aa after enabling the proper
compile time configuration option. So for apps that needs say 3G
per-process it should work just fine. But of course for anything that
needs more than that 64bit is the right way to go :)
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-18 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-17 22:18 "3.5GB user address space" option Oleg A. Yurlov
2001-10-17 22:27 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-18 4:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-18 9:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-10-18 13:47 ` Re[2]: " Oleg A. Yurlov
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