[PLUG] 4GB Address space ?

Karl M. Hegbloom karlheg at pdxlinux.org
Tue Dec 17 09:43:57 UTC 2002


The "mmap" man page and the help screens in the Linux kernel "make
menuconfig" say that the IA32 can address 4GB of memory...

Is that physical memory, or virtual memory?  Can it address more than
that amount of virtual memory, but only 4GB at a time, or what?






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