Re: Install i386 or amd64?

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:26:13AM -0500, Jason Mitchell wrote:
> 
> Not to advocate i386 over amd64, but doesn't NetBSD/i386 support PAE and thus 
> can access >2GB of RAM?
> 

You are still limited to a 32bit address space in the process so you
still can't go over the 4Gb memory limit and that is divided between
kernel and user space hence why a process gets 2(ish)Gb.  These
limitations don't apply to a true 64bit system.

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