Re: Linux Buffer Overflow Security Exploits

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:14:38 +0100


On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:30:15PM +0100, Martin Mares wrote:

> > And how do you use more than 4 gigabytes of RAM on these boring Intel
> > boxes _without_ segmentation? ;)
> > [... and don't say "ram drives" - unless you have a new meaning for that ;)]
>
> The answer is "You don't want to do this". Using >4G of RAM on a 32-bit
> CPU is brain-damaged.

The only halfway sane answer to this problem is NUMA but then who offers
such hardware ... Then again calling the ``ia32'' thing an architecture
is an insult of the whole competition ...

Ralf

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