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To: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: Even 1GB KVA is not enough, but we have no more space 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>extend our KVA any further. (I understand that 1GB is the upper limit
>of KVA on i386, am I right?)

   No, there isn't any limit, except for nearly all 4GB of the virtual memory
for the kernel. freesoftware.com and cdrom.com both run with 2GB of KVA space.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
Pave the road of life with opportunities.


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