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Re: 3.3G RAM limit?



On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 04:07:29PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> I have a fuzzy memory that there's some kind of limit that leads to
> i386 topping out at three-point-something gigs of RAM.  Could someone
> remind me of details?

It's got a single address space for user and kernel.  I can't remember if
that impacts our memory size reporting (likely not) but you will need to
run in PAE mode if you want to address anywhere near the full 4GB from
non-kernel code.

Thor


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