Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:53:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: Max Clark <max.clark@media.net> Subject: Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0309041152140.41602-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3F56352F.7050701@acm.org>
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Max Clark wrote: > > Ohh, that's an interesting snag. I was under the impression that 5.x w/ PAE > > could address more than 4GB of Ram. > > That's >4G of memory in the system. 32-bit processors > are still limited to 4G processor address space, which means > <3G per process (allowing some memory for kernel operations). > You can't get around that unless you either go for a 64-bit > processor or do some complex coding to break your application > storage across multiple processes. It's worse than that, becasue I think that to handle >4GB of ram you need to limit your processes to about 2G of virtual space.
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