On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:11:57AM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote:
> On Wed, January 27, 2010 9:28 am, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > Depends on the arch. i386 is limited to 1G, amd64 is limited to 8G per
> > process. What happens if more memory is allocated than the available
> > swap is that the kernel will kill random processes to free swap. That
> > might be what is going on in your case. Also, in some cases a lack of
> > physical memory might kill processes.
> >
> > -Otto
>
> Does this mean that amd64 can now handle >4G of RAM, or is that a separate
> issue?
virtual mem != physical mem, so that's indeed a different issue.
-Otto
