Re: [PATCH] proposed addition of Documentation/bigmem.txt

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Sun, 17 May 1998 20:29:37 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 17 May 1998, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

[...discussion on virtual/physical memory limits and swap limits elided...]

I should of course mention that all these numbers are for the Intel
platform only; if you really want to run very large memory applications,
you should probably be using a 64-bit architecture, instead. Alpha or
ultraSPARC come to mind. The intel limits are not present on these
machines.
--Scott
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