H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> That's because you're running out of address space, not memory.
> HIGHMEM doesn't do anything for the latter -- it can't. You start
> running into a lot of fundamental problems when your memory size gets
> in the same (or higher) ballpark than your address space.
>
> The best solution is go buy a 64-bit CPU. There isn't much else you
> can do about it.
That's completely missing the point of my request (which, I admit, I didn't
make clear). I need to allocate about 3/4 of available memory in the kernel.
If I had 2GB of RAM, I'd need to allocate 1.5GB. If I had 8 GB of RAM, I'd
need to allocate 6GB. I just used 3GB/4GB because it's our current test platform.
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