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On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:21 -0500, David Klempner wrote: |
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> * Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> [2006-06-20 16:51]: |
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> > I figured it out. The VMSPLIT options are *not* available on 64-bit |
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> > systems. (Phew. It's neither encroaching madness nor Alzheimer's.) |
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> Yeah... I suppose I wasn't paying close enough attention to what you |
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> were saying. :-) |
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Well, it took way longer than I would have wished for me to catch on. |
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You'd think the total absence of any VMSPLIT options in *any* of my |
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saved config files would have been a sufficient hint, but no.... |
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> The VMSPLIT options are about how the kernel uses the 32 bit address |
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> space (specifically, what fraction of the address space of each process |
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> it reserves for its own use). A large portion of what a 64 bit system |
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> gets you is more than 32 bits worth of address space, so I'm fairly sure |
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> the entire issue is moot. :-) |
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You're most certainly right. |
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--- Vladimir |
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> |
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