I suspect James is talking about an application that uses more than that amount - one that actually uses PAE itself. This is not the default in linux, only the kernel is PAE aware, so applications on 32 bit systems are stuck with the 4GB limit This is not entirely true. An application not only has its own memory component, it also has shared
On Sunday 11 June 2006 5:12 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
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. But, even if a
32-bit application itself is not PAE aware, it can utilize then extended
memory indirectly.
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Jerry Feldman