upper memory limit
Tim Roberts
timr at probo.com
Tue Aug 10 01:22:59 EDT 2004
Peter Wilkinson <pwilkinson at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
>Why do you say that single process is limited to 2 Gig? I believe that on
>windows a single process can run with to 32 bits addressed or 4 Gig of
>space. I have run R with over 2 Gig of memory.
>
>Why would python be limited to 2 Gig (including overhead)? I don't see that
>python should be any different.
(I responded privately, but thought I should register the answer here,
too.)
No, a user-mode process in Windows is limited to 2GB of address space.
Addresses 80000000 and larger are kernel space. You can change the
threshhold to 3GB by using the /3gb boot.ini switch, but few do so.
You can certainly have more than 2GB of physical RAM in your machine, but a
single process cannot use more than 2GB at a time.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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