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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: max physical memory per process?
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Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits
set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical
memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory
that a process can allocate?  In particular, if I have
a Tyan K8W (dual opteron platform) with 16 GB of memory,
can my numerical simulation allocate up 15+ GB?

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Steve
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