[parisc-linux] Swap space limitions for Linux on parisc

Duraid Madina duraid@fl.net.au
Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:38:35 +1100


John wrote:

>P.S. Note that we don't support 64 bit user space processes yet, so you
>would probably find it difficult to consume extreme amounts of swap
>space, since each process can only address ~4Gb of memory.	

(!!!)

*ponders tearing up his code into multiple processes*

The 'yet' above gives me hope; will 64 bit user space processes be
supported anytime soon? Being able to malloc(1<<36) would be nice!

	Duraid