Re: Process Memory

Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:18:12 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:54, Matt Poepping wrote:
> We are testing 64bit redhat and 64bit suse. On the suse 
> machines, a process can allocate 3.9gb of memory. On the 
> Redhat machine it can only allocate 2.3GB of memory.

on a 64 bit machine you should be able to allocate dozens and dozens of
gigabytes of memory......

if you run a 32 bit app it depends on how glibc allocates memory (brk vs
mmap) how much you can allocate.
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