what is the need of creating 4GB of pages in linux?



what is the need of creating 4GB of pages in linux?..

Answer / ravi a joshi

Not sure what this question is. But looks like the question
is: Why 4GB addressing space available in Linux. Well, the
simple answer is it can address so much of memory with
available 32 address lines. 2 ^ 32 = 4 GB.

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