Tom Austin <taustin> wrote:

> Warp wrote:
>> Tom Austin <taustin> wrote:
>>> It looks like you know what you are doing, but here are some things I
>>> have run across regarding memory - based on 32 bit systems.
>> 
>>> A single application (thread) is limited to using 2GB or 3GB depending
>>> on your OS and settings within the OS.
>> 
>>   Don't base your answer on 32-bit systems since he is using a 64-bit
>>   one.
>> 
> 
> Your statement is very judgmental and a week after the fact.
> 
> 
> You may not have read completely what I wrote:
> 
> "If your system is 64 bit, it could be that something is still limiting
> it to using 32 bit memory addressing. "
> 
> I offered what information I knew.  He might have already known it all,
> but then he might not have.  I didn't presume that my information about
> 32 bit systems would solve his problems.  I only thought that if I
> offered what I knew that it might trip his mind on what was actually the
> problem.
> 
> And his problem was a 32 bit one.

Neither 32bit nor 64bit. It was a screwed up kernel.

What put me on the wrong track at first was the fact that povray crashed
at(or very near) the 3Gb limit (which is 32 bit)
> 
>>   I don't know why he cannot use more than 3GB in his system, though.
>> 
> 
> read the thread - he didn't have 'big' memory compiled into the kernel.
> 

I did have the "big" kernel but it was erroneous and that's what threw me
off

> LAter... Tom

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Ger

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