If zandronum is 32bits...

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If zandronum is 32bits...

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Post by ibm5155 » Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:22 pm

if zandronum is 32bits, how can it load more than 1,7gb of ram? I was doing a test software that was Always crashing on malloc, and I discovered that there's a limit on 32bits software that you can use only 1,7gb of ram for it, but then, I remembred that zandronum can actually use all of my ram,so, wtf does zandronum to use more than 1,7gb of ram O_o
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RE: If zandronum is 32bits...

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Post by Tiger » Thu Oct 22, 2015 3:42 pm

If true, then the program could be using using a flag[1]. Nothing to be concerned over; if you're using 32bit OS then you'll just have to settle with PAE.

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Post by Dusk » Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:39 pm

ibm5155 wrote:I discovered that there's a limit on 32bits software that you can use only 1,7gb of ram for it
Who told you that? A 32-bit system has 4GB address space. What are you running to make it use 1.7GB anyway?

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Post by ibm5155 » Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:49 pm

Read the tiger link and you'll understand where this magic number came from... Also, thanks tiger for the reply
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