Re: kcore and memory questions

Oleg Zabluda (zabluda@math.psu.edu)
5 Aug 1996 15:31:10 GMT


Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: > For the current implementations the absolute limits are the 36 bits
: > address bus (== 64GB) and 1TB virtual addrss space for user programs. This
: > shouldn't really be a limit for anyone (no, don't mmap your TB raid array ...)
: > but iff there is room in the architecture to grow the user address space up
: > to 2^63 bytes (8 Exabytes), the physical address space up to 2^56 bytes (64
: > Petabytes). Numbers that are pretty insane huge ...
: >
:
: Don't say that, those are famous last words (rember that a certain Gates
: is supposed to have said that 640k is enough for anyone ...).

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for more on this issue.

Oleg.