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Which myth exactly? Also, swapping memory in and out of the address space is a rather costly operation. And it becomes infeasible if the process's working set
by zvrba 14y ago
Which myth exactly?
Also, swapping memory in and out of the address space is a rather costly operation. And it becomes infeasible if the process's working set grows larger than the available address space [thrashing].
- tonfa 14y agoI think that on Linux, the 4G/4G split never made it, so in practice the limit is around 64GB due the limited amount of lowmem available to the kernel in the regular 3G/1G split. https://lwn.net/Articles/39283/ https://lwn.net/Articles/39283/