Re: Huge contiguous memory allocation in userspace

[Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>]

** Reply to message from "Joseph P. Garcia" <jpgarcia@execpc.com> on Wed, 24
Jan 2001 16:18:40 -0600


> How do I go about accessing the remaining 2GB of real memory for use in this 
> simulation?  Is there anyway to have virtually non-contiguous memory spaces 
> remapped to be addressed contigously?  Or am I totally confused here?

Well, you'll never be able to allocate 4GB of contiguous memory with only 4GB
of RAM, because some of that memory goes to the kernel, user code, etc.


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