Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:10:55 -0500 (EST)

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>> Processes can have more than one segment, and 32-bit virtual address
>> spaces can themselves be made virtual. I suppose one could say that
>> the following hack uses segments to implement paging of a 36-bit
>> virtual address space.
>
> All segments map onto the same 4Gig virtual space

I told you I was aware of that. Read the post again.
Hint: at any one point in time, most segments are invalid.
Another hint: the 4 kB pages need not be used at all.

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