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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:18:23 +0200
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
From: Roberto Fichera <kernel@tekno-soft.it>
Subject: Re: How to use memory over 4GB
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At 14.57 16/05/2005, Eric Dumazet wrote:

>Roberto Fichera a ?crit :
>>Hi All,
>>I've a dual Xeon 3.2GHz HT with 8GB of memory running kernel 2.6.11.
>>I whould like to know the way how to use all the memory in a single
>>process, the application is a big simulation which needs big memory chuncks.
>
>AFAIK the best you can have with a 32bits processor, is 4GB for one process.

Yes! I know ;-)!


>But still you need a 4GB/4GB user/kernel split, because the standard is 
>3GB/1GB.

Why I need 4GB/4GB split? What are the beneficts?


>Eric
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Roberto Fichera. 

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