On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:46:05AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> sorry for the lame question.
>
> i heard that in amd64 the maximum virtual memory per process is limited to
> 4GB (in 64bit mode) due to CPU limitations.
>
> is it true? (the kernel source shows the opposite).
No, it's false.
> is it possible a process to malloc() more than 4GB in 64bit mode?
Yes.
See the thread titled "malloc on 64 AMD64", starting 15th April on
this mailing list for examples of success in allocating more than 4GiB
in userspace.
Hugo.
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