From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Oct 10 22:43:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from public.bta.net.cn (public.bta.net.cn [202.96.0.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0255314E62 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:43:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robinson@netrinsics.com) Received: from netrinsics.com (robinson@TCE-E-7-177-249.bta.net.cn [202.106.177.249]) by public.bta.net.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01686 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:35:59 +0800 (CST) Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id NAA03545; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:41:53 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from robinson) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:41:53 +0800 (CST) From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <199910110541.NAA03545@netrinsics.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com, robinson@netrinsics.com Subject: Re: How 64-bit is Alpha FreeBSD? Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson writes: >We support a 42 bit user address space right now. This is a hardware >limitation for older alphas but could be changed for newer hardware which >could probably extend it to 55 bits. Thanks. Does that mean, theoretically speaking, that if I were running FreeBSD on an Alpha with sufficient kernel memory, and 2 terabytes of data files, I could mmap the whole 2 terabytes into one process? -Michael Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message