-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 15:11, Damien Ferrand wrote: > On 08/03/07 10:28 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: >> I seem to have developed a need for a single process (R) to use more than >> 3G of RAM. The system has 6G, and is doing virtually nothing else. Is >> there a way to compile 2.6.18 or higher with the so-called hugemem patch >> under debian? > It looks like hugemem is a redhat thing... I don't know if it is > easy/possible to have it under debian. These kernels are generally heavily > patched. > > But even with this patch, a signle process will be limited to less than 4G of > memory. As the hugemem kernels have switching overhead check if you really > can't work in another way.
Yes, you really need a 64-bit system for a single process to efficiently use more than 1 (or is it 2?) GB or memory. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8KaOS9HxQb37XmcRAqSuAJ9xGGNB0wyC45G5c7ih82fHiWBsTACfS2MG 8ygMAVHuRcFDuBpSIDawHnE= =/25b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
