On 6/20/2010 10:32 AM, T o n g wrote: > Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one, or something > superficial imposed by M$? I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 > architecture) has such 3G limit as well?
I'm not familiar with "M$", but if you're referring to "MS", short for "Microsoft", then no. Sorry, pet peeve, but "M$", "Micro$oft", and the like, come across as quite immature, and very fanboy. A 32-bit system, is a system that can address at most 2^32 bits of memory for any given process. Most 32-bit kernels these days, however, can address much more thanks to the physical address extensions (PAE), typically 64 GB. But that still means that each process can only address 2^32, or 4GB of RAM. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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