Re: 3gb/1gb

"Rene Gollent" <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:20:52 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.kernel.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Ingo Weinhold <[email protected]> wrote:
> I might misunderstand your argument, but having more than 2 GB of physical
> RAM has not much to do with how the address space is split. The only reason
> for changing the split would be applications using more than 2 GB of virtual
> memory. ATM I don't see any candidates, though.

Right, it was meant mainly for data-intensive apps that might have a
use for > 2GB userland address space, video editors come to mind,
though we admittedly might not currently have anything that could
exploit that.

Regards,

Rene

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