Re: How to use memory over 4GB

[Eric Dumazet]

Roberto Fichera a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> I've a dual Xeon 3.2GHz HT with 8GB of memory running kernel 2.6.11.
> I whould like to know the way how to use all the memory in a single
> process, the application is a big simulation which needs big memory 
> chuncks.

AFAIK the best you can have with a 32bits processor, is 4GB for one process.

But still you need a 4GB/4GB user/kernel split, because the standard is 3GB/1GB.

Eric
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