Re: memory exhausted

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> This is larger than the virtual address space of i386 machines,
> but not larger than the physical address space. In principle, an
> executive taking advantage of 36-bit physical addressing extensions and
> performing its own memory management on the bare metal could perform an
> in-core sort on a 36-bit physical addressing -capable 32-bit machine,
> e.g. i386-style PAE/highmem machines and some 32-bit MIPS machines. A
> kernel module could also in principle take advantage of the kernel's
> low-level memory management facilities to perform such an in-core sort.
> While possible, this is absolutely not recommended.
> 

Good God, I hope x86-64 catches on soon and kills off this PAE silliness...

	-hpa


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