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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Roberto Fichera <kernel@tekno-soft.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to use memory over 4GB
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:57:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428898CF.5060908@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050516142516.0313e860@mail.tekno-soft.it>

Roberto Fichera a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> I've a dual Xeon 3.2GHz HT with 8GB of memory running kernel 2.6.11.
> I whould like to know the way how to use all the memory in a single
> process, the application is a big simulation which needs big memory 
> chuncks.

AFAIK the best you can have with a 32bits processor, is 4GB for one process.

But still you need a 4GB/4GB user/kernel split, because the standard is 3GB/1GB.

Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-16 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-16 12:42 How to use memory over 4GB Roberto Fichera
2005-05-16 12:56 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-05-16 13:16   ` Roberto Fichera
2005-05-16 15:10     ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-05-16 15:47       ` Roberto Fichera
2005-05-16 15:54         ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-05-16 16:37           ` Roberto Fichera
2005-05-16 19:14   ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-16 12:57 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2005-05-16 13:18   ` Roberto Fichera
2005-05-16 14:17     ` Eric Dumazet
2005-05-16 14:50       ` Roberto Fichera
2005-05-16 21:34         ` Nix
2005-05-17  7:15           ` Roberto Fichera
2005-05-16 15:22       ` William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-16 12:55 li nux
2005-05-16 13:06 ` Roberto Fichera

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