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From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
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Subject: Re: What are the current memory limits on x86?
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:21:56PM -0800, Ross Lippert wrote:
> 
> I know someone having some trouble with a big memory machine
> running some other *nix, so I was curious about some stuff.
> 
> (if the answers apply differently for the kernels of 4.4 and
> 5.0-CURRENT, please specify)
> 
> Specifically, on an x86 with 4Gig of RAM, will the kernel
> let a single process access nearly all of it?  I believe that
> on his current setup doing a >2Gig malloc returns NULL.
> 
> In general, I am curious about what the current limits and
> gotcha's are for FreeBSD for large memory machines Intel
> and otherwise, but I am having a hard time finding something
> describing where the edge is.

#include <limits.h>
#include <machine/limits.h>
#include <sys/syslimits.h>

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