Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:41:53 +0800 (CST) From: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com, robinson@netrinsics.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How 64-bit is Alpha FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199910110541.NAA03545@netrinsics.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910102018510.91778-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> 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
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