On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:21 -0500, David Klempner wrote:
> * Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-20 16:51]:
> > I figured it out. The VMSPLIT options are *not* available on 64-bit
> > systems. (Phew. It's neither encroaching madness nor Alzheimer's.)
> 
> Yeah... I suppose I wasn't paying close enough attention to what you
> were saying. :-)

Well, it took way longer than I would have wished for me to catch on.
You'd think the total absence of any VMSPLIT options in *any* of my
saved config files would have been a sufficient hint, but no....

> 
> The VMSPLIT options are about how the kernel uses the 32 bit address
> space (specifically, what fraction of the address space of each process
> it reserves for its own use). A large portion of what a 64 bit system
> gets you is more than 32 bits worth of address space, so I'm fairly sure
> the entire issue is moot. :-)

You're most certainly right.

--- Vladimir

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