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On 14/03/2007, at 2:31 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:

The reading I've done so far on this subject leads me to believe that
most people don't know what they heck they're talking about. Some claim that 32-bit OSs can't use more than 4GB RAM (they can) or that they have

32bit OSes can not use more than 4GB RAM. What you are probably referring to is PAE, and there the kernel splits the 'extra' memory into chunks, and can give each process part of this chunk - a single process however, under
linux can not use more than 2GB (or 3GB) of RAM (depending on how the
kernel was compiled)

2GB/2GB kernel and process memory boundaries (they don't, except that I
think MS Windows might have this), or that the problem is that 32-bit

Well think again

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283037

It will tell you all about the 2G/ 3G issues as well.

So, can you point me to a resource that actually explains what the
"problem" is and why it exists?

The above link should hopefully be enough.

Cheers

Andrew
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