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Subject: Re: largest amount of memory a system can use
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"akanwar@digitarchy.com" <akanwar@digitarchy.com> writes:

> I need to know what is the upper limit on the amount of memory a process
> can use under freebsd. Using rlimit (under 4.8-RELEASE) seems to return
> 2GB. 
> 
> Is there any plan to support larger than this in the future 5.x releases ?

I don't know about 5.x (you'd have to ask the -CURRENT folks about
that), but under 4.x, the issue is one of balancing the kernel and
process memory usage out of the maximum 4 GB space.