Re: x86 question: Can a process have > 3GB memory?

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
08 May 2002 09:21:38 -0700


On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 01:29, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:08:55PM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
>
> > The attached patch (for which credit goes elsewhere - Ingo or Randy, I
> > think?) implements the full range of 1 to 3.5GB user space partitioning,
>
> actually I'm the one who wrote the 3.5G config option both in 2.2 and
> recently I forward ported it to 2.4 due the number of requests I was
> getting.

Apologies - credit where credit is due. It clearly came from -aa, what
with the 00_ naming prefix :)

Nice patch.

Robert Love

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