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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: memory allocation question
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I may have finally talked my boss into updating my computational
workstation (which runs FreeBSD).  The directions of our computations
is leading towards massive memory requirement.  So, the question is:
If I have an AMD64 system with 16GB of memory and appropriate kernel
options, can a single process allocate >15 GB for its use?

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Steve
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/