From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more than 3 GB in userspace (4G/4G patch?) for 2.6.16
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:30:27 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6napj$3j0$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 448F207A.6080601@hanno.de
Followup to: <448F207A.6080601@hanno.de>
By author: Hanno Mueller <sockpuppet@hanno.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> on my 8 GB system with two 32-bit-xeons, I would like to have more than
> 3 gigs in userspace.
>
See if you can replace them with 64-bit Xeons. That would be the best option.
> A 0.5/3.5 GB split appears to be what I need for my application.
That is incompatible with PAE. The way PAE works, the split has to be
an even number of gigabytes.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-13 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-13 20:30 more than 3 GB in userspace (4G/4G patch?) for 2.6.16 Hanno Mueller
2006-06-13 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-06-13 21:37 ` Dave Hansen
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