From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 17:27:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C241106566C for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-1516.google.com (yw-out-1516.google.com [74.125.46.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACEF8FC0A for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-1516.google.com with SMTP id 4so3721468ywp.13 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:27:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.58.5 with SMTP id g5mr86037yba.19.1234978040262; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:27:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <000e0cd303bc6532a0046334bb5d@google.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:27:20 +0000 From: af300wsm@gmail.com To: Free BSD Questions list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: memory limitations per process X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:27:21 -0000 Hi, I'm running into a per process memory limit at work (on Windoze though), but I'm wondering what's the limit per process in FreeBSD for 32 bit systems, ie i386? Is it 4gb or 2? From stuff I found on the Net, I'm guessing 4gb, but wanted to ask anyway. It seems to be an implementation deal limiting the windows world to 2gb per process rather than hardware limitations. Thanks, Andy