* Anders Fugmann (afu@fiaif.net) wrote: > Gabriel Ebner wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:46:05AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote: > >gebner@schnecke2 ~ [0] $ grep 'address sizes' /proc/cpuinfo > >address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > > Does anyone know why there is a limitation of 48 bits on the virtual > address space, and if it is technically possible to have a 64 bit > address space on the AMD64 architecture? Uh, well, 2^48 is 256TB, I believe. You need more than that? Stephen
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