Thus spake Vallo Kallaste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Userspace processes will allocate memory > from UVA space and can grow over 1GB of size if needed by swapping. > You can certainly have more than one over-1GB process going on at > the same time, but swapping will constrain your performance.
It isn't a performance constraint. 32-bit architectures have 32-bit pointers, so in the absence of segmentation tricks, a virtual address space can only contain 2^32 = 4G locations. If the kernel gets 3 GB of that, the maximum amount of memory that any individual user process can use is 1 GB. If you had, say, 4 GB of physical memory, a single user process could not use it all. Swap increases the total amount of memory that *all* processes can allocate by pushing some of the pages out of RAM and onto the disk, but it doesn't increase the total amount of memory that a single process can address. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
