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To: James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net>
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Subject: Re: New VM problem
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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Date: 28 Oct 2000 17:59:24 +0200
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James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net> writes:

>     On an unrelated note, is it possible for a process in 2.4 to see more
> than 2G of address space?  They seem to be limited to 2G for me.  I
> was hoping that the HIMEM stuff had removed that limit.

You have 3GB user space address space. 1 GB is still reserved for the
kernel and you cannot break the 4GB limit for one process. But you can
have multiple processes using their own <3GB chunk of memory.

Greetings
                Christoph

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