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From: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com>
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Subject: Re: Large memory issues on 4-STABLE
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> Now here's the problem, consistent with  three versions of 4-STABLE over
> the last couple of weeks and finally yesterday.
> 
> Everything works perfectly as abve except that limit reports datasize
> 2048000 kbytes - which kind of makes sense given the figures above.
> 
> However, the guys want to be able to use all the RAM, not just 2GB

   Sorry, due to design issues, it isn't possible to have virtual sizes
larger than about 3GB on FreeBSD. This is because the kernel is mapped in
the upper part of the virtual address space. Of course you can use all of
your 4GB of RAM - just not all of it at the same time in one process.

-DG

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