> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:26:13AM -0500, Jason Mitchell wrote: >> >> Not to advocate i386 over amd64, but doesn't NetBSD/i386 support PAE and >> thus can access >2GB of RAM? >> > > You are still limited to a 32bit address space in the process so you > still can't go over the 4Gb memory limit and that is divided between > kernel and user space hence why a process gets 2(ish)Gb. These > limitations don't apply to a true 64bit system. > > -- > Brett Lymn > Staple Guns: because duct tape doesn't make that KerCHUNK sound - xkcd.com > Please don't post about things that you don't understand. Here's the information from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension And here's the first four lines: ---------------------- Physical Address Extension >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computing, Physical Address Extension (PAE) is a feature to allow 32-bit IA-32 central processing units (CPUs) to access a physical address space (including random access memory and memory mapped devices) larger than 4 gigabytes. ----------------------- I've copied port-i386 on this in case more questions come up. Jason M.
