Re: 3GB address space

[Alexandre Julliard]

Shachar Shemesh  writes:
> Can you? I was under the impression that some addresses are reserved
> for kernel addresses, or is that above 3GB?

Yes it's above 3Gb normally.
> Basically, they are keeping huge database-like memory structures in
> memory for quick access. They are actually working on machines with
> 3GB of RAM, and they need it accessable. I will need to run some
> tests, but I think that they mostly do memory allocation and filling,
> not mmaps.

Memory allocations are based on mmap.