Re: Virtual memory stuff and Reiserfs

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:09:01 +0100 (MET)


On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:

> The 386 (at least) is capable of addressing 64TB of virtual memory, isn't
> mmap implemented as a demand page loading of VM??? That's how
> I'd implement it.

But you can only address 4GB efficiently
(read: QNX speed).

Rik.
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