[plug] upper RAM size limits in Linux

Denis Brown dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Tue Dec 2 21:44:41 WST 2003


On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Trent Lloyd wrote:

> I know that 4G is the upper limit for one process to use I think
>
Ahhh... thanks.   On a per process basis that would be good.

> I believe that you can use up to 64G overall.
>
If only the budget would allow (real RAM) :-)

> As for glibc/etc I'm pretty sure the '3 gig limit' is for each instance
> of a program etc.
>
Thanks, Trent.   I'll dig a bit deeper tomorrow based on the above.

Cheers,
Denis





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