Subject RE: [Firebird-Architect] "Large Address Aware" - giving 3-4 GB of virtual memory to 32bit FB
Author Kirill S. Palagin
Thanks a lot!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Reeves [mailto:paul@...]
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 12:46 PM
> To: Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Firebird-Architect] "Large Address Aware" -
> giving 3-4 GB of virtual memory to 32bit FB
>
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 09:02, Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > I would like to know FB1.5/2 is/planned to be "Large Address Aware"?
>
> Internally Fb 1.5 and 2 are LAA. In practice the Win32
> toolchain doesn't produce LAA executables by default, but Fb
> 1.5 has been large address aware on Win32 since at least
> 1.5.2. I can't remember if Fb 2.0 supports it yet, but it is
> only a question of making a small change to the build process.
>
> I'm not sure of the status with the posix builds. IIRC the
> issue, on Linux at least, is moot. If the kernel is compiled
> with a 3GB/1GB memory split then 3GB of ram is available to
> an executable.
>
>
> Paul
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