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From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Christoph Pleger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I read that - at least in Kernel 2.4 - the amount of memory that can be
> addressed by a user process is limited to 3 GB, no matter how much
> virtual memory is present. Is it possible to raise that limit?
>
> Kind regards
>   Christoph

Sure. Use two (or more) tasks. It is a per-process limit because
in Unix the kernel shares the processes address space. See
how your process is laid out by executing this:

#include <stdio.h>
extern char _start;
extern char _end;
char dat;
const char x[]="x";
int main()
{
    char foo;
    printf("start = %p\n", &_start);
    printf(" main = %p\n", main);
    printf(" data = %p\n", &dat);
    printf("const = %p\n", x);
    printf("stack = %p\n", &foo);
    printf("  end = %p\n", &_end);
    return 0;
}

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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