[Vm-dev] linux 64bit vm running a 32 bit images - networking vm crash

[subbukk]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 1:48 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On May 31, 2007, at 5:22 , Chris Muller wrote:
> > Cool, I think you're saying, once the signed oop is fixed, there
> > should be no problem with memory locations beyond 4GB.
>
> No - each process in the operating system gets their own virtual
> memory space. As long as your image is not larger than 4 GB you can
> run the 32-bit version, but as many copies of it as RAM+Swap allows.
4GB limit applies to the total per-process virtual space. If the space taken 
up per-process kernel structures and internal fragmentation etc. are 
accounted for, the limit on image size may work out somewhere between 3 to 
3.5GB.

Regards .. Subbu