Hi
I have a machine with 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap area and it is a 32-bit machine.
For fun, I tried to allocate memory dynamically by using malloc in a loop till there is
no memory avilable. I ended up allocating 2 GB memory. My inference is, total memory
allocated can be equal to size of RAM + size of SWAP at max.
Afaik, for a 32 - bit machine we can not address more than 2^32 addresses. Now, If I
have another machine with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB swap then, as per above inference I
should be able to allocated 5 GB memory at max ! Out of this only lower 4 GB will be
addressable.
Is there some loophole in the above argument?
Regards,
Pharaoh.
