Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:57:38 -0700 From: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com> To: Irvine Short <irvine@sanbi.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large memory issues on 4-STABLE Message-ID: <20030913075738.GC40128@nexus.dglawrence.com> In-Reply-To: <20030913092804.S46465@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <20030913092804.S46465@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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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 David G. Lawrence Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.
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