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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New VM problem
Date: 28 Oct 2000 17:59:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lmv9x8gz.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001027070329.A884@bessie.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: James Lewis Nance's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:03:29 -0400"

James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net> writes:

>     On an unrelated note, is it possible for a process in 2.4 to see more
> than 2G of address space?  They seem to be limited to 2G for me.  I
> was hoping that the HIMEM stuff had removed that limit.

You have 3GB user space address space. 1 GB is still reserved for the
kernel and you cannot break the 4GB limit for one process. But you can
have multiple processes using their own <3GB chunk of memory.

Greetings
                Christoph

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-28 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-27 11:03 New VM problem James Lewis Nance
2000-10-27 14:25 ` James Lewis Nance
2000-10-28 15:59 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]

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