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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: "3.5GB user address space" option.
Date: 17 Oct 2001 21:38:35 -0700
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By author:    "Oleg A. Yurlov" <kris@spylog.com>
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>
> 
>         Hi, folks,
> 
>         How  I  can  use  3.5GB  in my apps ? I try malloc() and get error on 2G
> bounce... :-(
> 
>         Hardware - SMP server, 2Gb RAM, 8Gb swap, kernel 2.4.12aa1.
> 

Get a 64-bit CPU.  You're running into a fundamental limit of 32-bit
architectures.

	-hpa
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