Hi,
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:29:38 -0500 (EST), Emil Briggs
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> If I remember correctly the 36 bit addressing on Intel does not use
> 36 bit offsets.
Correct: it still uses a 32-bit virtual address space. Only the
physical addressing is 36 bits.
> So to actually use > 4 Gigs of memory your application would need to
> do some extra translation work and take a performance hit.
You can't have more than 4G in a single process (3G under linux). You
can still have multiple processes each with their own 32 bit address
spaces, all getting their own slice out of the 64G physical memory. You
can still use the extra space for the page cache.
--Stephen
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