Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 01:08 am, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:27:46PM +0000, Jo Shields wrote:
> > 32-bit OSen have a theoretical limit of 4GiB addressable memory.
>
> PAE gives you 64 GiB physical memory on 32-bit processors that support
> it.
Yes, but each process is still limited to 4 GB each. PAE just lets you
run multiple processes each with their own 4 GB of memory space. If you
have a process that needs more than 4 GB, PAE will not help you.
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