Re: How to use memory over 4GB

[Roberto Fichera]

At 14.57 16/05/2005, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Roberto Fichera a écrit :
> > Hi All,
> > I've a dual Xeon 3.2GHz HT with 8GB of memory running kernel 2.6.11.
> > I whould like to know the way how to use all the memory in a single
> > process, the application is a big simulation which needs big memory chuncks.
>
> AFAIK the best you can have with a 32bits processor, is 4GB for one process.

Yes! I know ;-)!


> But still you need a 4GB/4GB user/kernel split, because the standard is 
> 3GB/1GB.

Why I need 4GB/4GB split? What are the beneficts?


> Eric
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