Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:58:59 +0000, language_fan thusly wrote: > I even think that if your OS supports page > files, it doesn't matter if the memory is on chip or disk - if the > memory is split 3/1 for processes and kernel, you should be able to > allocate 2 GB easily.
For example my system has 5GB of virtual memory reported by the OS, and 3.5GB free virtual space, 1.6GB free physical RAM. The OS provides a memory space of 3GB for each process. Based on some testing C allows allocating a maximum amount of 2810MB RAM with malloc.
