Re: max physical memory per process?

2003-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:22:53PM -0700, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > I guess the gist of the question is: "are 64-bit > FreeBSD platforms limited to 4GB per process due > to some underlying assumption in the ia32 vm code?" ISTR that alpha has some kind of limitation, but other 64-bit platforms - in

Re: max physical memory per process?

2003-09-12 Thread Steven G. Kargl
Charles Swiger wrote: > On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits > > set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical > > memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory > > that a process can allocate?

Re: max physical memory per process?

2003-09-12 Thread Charles Swiger
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:19 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote: Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory that a process can allocate? In particular, if I have a Tyan K8W (du

max physical memory per process?

2003-09-12 Thread Steven G. Kargl
Assuming that a user has the proper resource limits set and assuming that the system has sufficient physical memory, what is the maximum amount of physical memory that a process can allocate? In particular, if I have a Tyan K8W (dual opteron platform) with 16 GB of memory, can my numerical simulat