Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

[Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi>]

2010/6/20 Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr>:
> Dne, 20. 06. 2010 18:32:02 je T o n g napisal(a):
>
>> Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one
>
> IIRC the answer is yes, it's a "natural" one, imposed by the address lines
> being limited to 32 bits: 2^32 gives you 4G, the remaining 1G was last seen
> being swallowed by the "Doors, Gates and Windows Consortium".

With pae enabled kernel on 32bit systems, you can split memory on 4GB slices.
It comes with some overhead, but still works fine. also 4GB process
limit applies to processes.

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Eero