Re: New VM problem

From: Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 10:59:24 EST


James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net> writes:

> On an unrelated note, is it possible for a process in 2.4 to see more
> than 2G of address space? They seem to be limited to 2G for me. I
> was hoping that the HIMEM stuff had removed that limit.

You have 3GB user space address space. 1 GB is still reserved for the
kernel and you cannot break the 4GB limit for one process. But you can
have multiple processes using their own <3GB chunk of memory.

Greetings
                Christoph

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Oct 31 2000 - 21:00:23 EST