Exceeding 3GB limit for user processes.

From: Mark (mark.gilerovitch_at_mindspeed.com)
Date: 11/27/03 

Date: 27 Nov 2003 00:27:09 -0800

Hi.
I have an Intel machine with 4GB RAM, that runs RedHat 7.2 Linux.
User processes can allocate no more than 3GB of memory.
I've installed kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-3, but didn't see any difference.
Am I doing something wrong?
Is it possible to allocate more memory to users processes at all?

Thanks in advance.

Mark.

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