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Re: Is there a 1GB memory ceiling for vm_allocate?

Subject: Re: Is there a 1GB memory ceiling for vm_allocate?
From: John Bullitt <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:27:59 -0500

On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Sean McBride wrote:

The thing is that a 32bit process can only address (at the very most) 4 GB of virtual memory, regardless of the amount of physical memory you have.

Yikes, was I ever naive! This is very sobering news. It means I now have to completely re-think how I work with large arrays and vectors.

Harrumph. :)

Many thanks for setting me straight.

	john


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