From owner-cvs-all Sun Jun 7 06:19:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26885 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 06:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26879 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 06:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id VAA19799; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 21:17:13 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199806071317.VAA19799@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Doug Rabson , David Greenman , John Hay , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_kern.c In-reply-to: Your message of "07 Jun 1998 14:57:03 +0200." Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 21:17:12 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: > Doug Rabson writes: > > Incidentally, FreeBSD/alpha will have approximately 2x10^12 virtual memory > > space available for the kernel and about 4x10^12 available for each user > > process :-). > > Umm, what's that in powers of two? It appears I can't handle powers of > ten very well these days :) > If I got bc to work right, and put in the right numbers :-) then: 2x10^12 == 2^40.86313713864834817486 4x10^12 == 2^41.86313713864834817488 So, given round-down, I'd say Doug's using a 41 bit kvm space and a 42 bit user space. (In hex, that'd be KVM == 0x20000000000 and user == 0x40000000000) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message