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Subject: Re: amd64: change VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE to 1?
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on 26/07/2010 22:29 Peter Wemm said the following:
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> That hard limit of 512G of physical ram doesn't seem so distant anymore..

I was reviewing this thread and got curious about this statement.
What is this limit?  Where does it come from?

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Andriy Gapon