can a 32 bit process use more than 2GB?
ESGLinux
esggrupos at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 09:55:27 UTC 2010
Hi,
I´m reading a post about the memory use for a java application:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080313075240/http://goobsoft.homeip.net/Wiki.jsp?page=JavaDebianTuning
and there is a thing that surprise me:
Read this and to the point where you understand that a 32-process on Linux
only has 2GB of addressible space. In fact, back in 1999, Linus decreed that
32-bit Linux would never, ever support more than 2GB of memory. "This is not
negotiable."
So I have a machine running RHEL x64 but I have a process that run over
only 32 bit (the JVM), Reading this I think my process only can use 2Gb of
memory.
is it true? is it oficial documented anywhere?
Thanks in advance,
ESG
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