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[openbeos] Re: kernel memory limit
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 08:34:50 +0200 CEST
François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> En réponse à Imre Leber <imre.leber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> BeOS, (and currently NewOS as well), uses the kernel side of the
> virtual
> space (a program's 4G), to map many things, among which is the
> physical
> RAM, as well as video framebuffer.
> The kernel portion of the virtual space is 2G, so, in these 2G we
> need to
> fit the physical RAM and many other things...
No, NewOS doesn't map all available memory - that's a BeOS only
feature, and is responsible for this hard limit; neither NewOS nor
OpenBeOS have it.
Changing this would almost require a new VM in BeOS, so it's still
there, even in Zeta.
Adios...
Axel.
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