Memory Mgmt

[Markku Kolkka]

Kamesh Sadasivam kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 3. 
toukokuuta 2005 19:05):
> In a 32-bit architecture, the max amt of memory that can be
> used is 4GB, of which 3GB for user space pgms & 1 GB for
>  kernel related data structures. *Is this in general a 3:1
> ratio ??* * *On a m/c with 256 MB, how would the user space /
> kernel space memory be divided ?

3GB for user space, 1GB for kernel space. This is _virtual_ 
address space, independent of the amount of real RAM present in 
the system.

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 Markku Kolkka
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