RE: Process not given >890MB on a 4MB machine ?????????

[Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>]

>	Unfortunately my program which is doing "alot" of calculations still
>needs more space,
>
>	Is there some way to enable 64 bit support (or something) and get
>the swap space active,
>	and give it another GB or so ?

Nope, I doubt it.  The x86 architecture is fundamentally 32-bit, and 
thus can't address more than 4Gb for a single process - 1Gb of that 
address space is reserved for the kernel.  You can confirm this by 
looking at the result of sizeof(void*).

You will either need to use a true 64-bit machine (POWER, Alpha, 
UltraSPARC or MIPS) or rewrite your program to use large files 
instead of large amounts of memory.  I suspect the latter would be 
less costly.

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