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From: yohn@tumult.sgi.com (Mike Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Virtual space per process
Summary: re: virtual address space question
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Date: 14 Jul 89 22:19:26 GMT
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In article <8907120803.aa04936@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, XBR2D96D@DDATHD21.BITNET (Knobi der Rechnerschrat) writes:
> Hallo,
> 
>   just a small question: what is the maximal available virtual address space
> (not counting swap space or physical memory) for each process on:
> 
>   an IRIS 4D/20
>   an IRIS 4D/50/60/70/80 (using the MIPS 20xx chips)
>   a  Power Series machine (using the MIPS 30xx chips)
> 
> 
> Regards
> Martin Knoblauch

The maximum per-process virtual address space on all the 4D machines
is 2 Gb.  A smaller per-process virtual address space can be enforced
by changing the MAXUMEM definition in the /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel
file and lboot'ing a new kernel (MAXUMEM is expressed in 4K pages).

	Michael Yohn Thompson