Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 23:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Michael Beckmann <petzi@apfel.de> Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199910290341.XAA00720@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <199910282253.PAA02302@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 28-Oct-99 Mike Smith wrote: > >> That´s why I´m looking for a way of having large mmap´able >> files. Are you saying that ALL Intel CPUs, including PIII, can only >> address 4 GB? > > That's correct; it's why the ia32 architecture has a '32' in its > name. Note quite. With PAE (Page Address Extensions available on PPro's and some later chips) you can get an extra 4 bits, for a total of 36 bits of addressable space, or 64 Gig. That still won't help out very much, however, for this problem. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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