On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:59 -0400, Ricker, William wrote: > LIMITS -- As near as Google can tell, the limit on 32bit is 2GB for > filesystem (signed numbers! Fie!), 4GB for process memory (unsigned, > yeah!). > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Perl+32-bit+2-GB+OR+4-GB+x86
On x86 hardware the 4GB process memory limit is the theoretical maximum, but standard OS/kernel configurations will give a process only 2GB or 3GB in practice even if you have 4GB+ of physical RAM in the machine. Each OS has some way of pushing the limit a little closer to 4GB, generally with the tradeoff of reduced space for kernel-space data structures. -- Jeremy _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
