Re: process max virtual memory limit in amd64?

To: Gabriel Ebner <ge@gabrielebner.at>
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: process max virtual memory limit in amd64?
From: Anders Fugmann <afu@fiaif.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:13:27 +0000
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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 virtualaddress space, and if it is technically possible to have a 64 bitaddress space on the AMD64 architecture?


Regards
Anders Fugmann

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