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Re: [SLE] 32-bit machines hit physical RAM limit at 4GB?
- From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:33:13 +0200
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Jerry Feldman wrote:
> An application not only has its own memory component, it also has
> shared libraries and a bunch of other things. If the kernel is PAE
> aware, the application can also avail itself of these features. I was
> reading a Sybase paper on the Adaptive Server Enterprise which does
> this.
Yes, I saw that one too. Though it didn't say much about which API it
would use on Linux.
> But, even if a 32-bit application itself is not PAE aware, it
> can utilize then extended memory indirectly.
Quite so.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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> An application not only has its own memory component, it also has
> shared libraries and a bunch of other things. If the kernel is PAE
> aware, the application can also avail itself of these features. I was
> reading a Sybase paper on the Adaptive Server Enterprise which does
> this.
Yes, I saw that one too. Though it didn't say much about which API it
would use on Linux.
> But, even if a 32-bit application itself is not PAE aware, it
> can utilize then extended memory indirectly.
Quite so.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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