understanding applications and PAE

[Nathan Bryant]

I think you can't do that currently. You can have multiple processes 
that collectively use more than 4 gigs but each process can only address 
4 gigs.

Vanco, Don wrote:

>While I hate to use this as a support line I've gotten no help from the 2
>local lugs I've queried, and know that there's some heavy hitters lurking
>here.
>
>I understand that the Linux kernel can (through PAE) provide memory paging
>beyond 4GB of physical memory on 32-bit architecture.  What I need to
>understand is: what are the requirements on the application side to utilize
>this memory?  I'm looking for documentation / links that talk about
>applications and PAE.
>
>Case in point: Lotus Notes on OS400 can address huge amount of RAM, but when
>it's running on Linux does it need to be compiled in a specific manner, or
>with some specific bit of code / API to address more than the architecture
>physically supports?
>
>Thanx
>Don
>
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