On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Berend van Wachem wrote: > Hi, > > I am using 32 bit linux (slackware) on a 64 bit opteron. Would using a 64 bit > linux distro help?
32bit adressing => 4GB max. [both for the OS and a process]. But generally a single process allocate can allocate only 2GB or 3GB - not 4GB. [This is OS dependent - as the OS requires the process to use this remaining addressspace for other things]. 64bit linux will avoid this limitation. Satish
