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Virtual Memory I: the problem

Posted Mar 11, 2004 11:51 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Virtual Memory I: the problem by dlang
Parent article: Virtual Memory I: the problem

If that were true any given process would only be able to address a third of the physical RAM in the system (on a fully-populated non-highmem box).

This is considered silly, since process virtual memory requirements can be far higher than their physical requirements. :)


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