From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 29 06:01:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DF116A4DA for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:01:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from regisr@pobox.com) Received: from crocoite.regix.info (regisr.net1.nerim.net [62.212.109.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBA643D46 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:01:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from regisr@pobox.com) Received: from crocoite.regix.info (localhost.regix.info [127.0.0.1]) by crocoite.regix.info (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7T61YQN001621 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:01:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from regisr@pobox.com) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:01:34 +0200 From: regisr To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060829080134.829f9683.regisr@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: datasize ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:01:38 -0000 Hello, My computer is powered by a 32 bits CPU. I want to run a progam which need datasize more than 3GB (may be the data should be temporary in a file (but I don't wrote this software ;-) . Does FreeBSD 6.1 can have a mechanism to do this? Other question: If I have less memory than 3G, is it possible to put the limit to 3G (~2.9 G, I need to check again the posts about this limit) whith swaping of course. May be I should buy a 64bits computer ... -- regis