Not quite true. A 32-bit virtual address space allows for about 4GB of TOTAL addressable memory; this includes both the PROCESS memory, and the KERNEL memory. Most OSes split the region in half, so that the most a process could allocate would be about 2GB. I know that MIPS, Windoze, etc. do this, and I would suspect that Solaris probably does the same.
--- Cserzo Miklos cserzo@abc.hu wrote:
I made another test. With the 32-bit version one should be able to address ~ 4.3 Gb of the memory. In practice, I can allocate about 2Gb
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