From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932243AbWFMVaj (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:30:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932244AbWFMVai (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:30:38 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:29111 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932243AbWFMVai (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:30:38 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" 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) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, with we do not fancy Message-ID: References: <448F207A.6080601@hanno.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1150234227 3681 127.0.0.1 (13 Jun 2006 21:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:30:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <448F207A.6080601@hanno.de> By author: Hanno Mueller 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