I have a 32 bit Intel processor with PAE enabled.
Address Bus -> 36 bit(PAE Enabled)
Data Bus -> 32 bit
What is the range of virtual address space of a process in this system(either windows or linux).
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I have a 32 bit Intel processor with PAE enabled.
Address Bus -> 36 bit(PAE Enabled)
Data Bus -> 32 bit
What is the range of virtual address space of a process in this system(either windows or linux).
On a 32-bit CPU, virtual address pointers are 32-bits. So each virtual address space (typically one per process on a modern OS) has a range of 4GB. PAE only affects the way physical memory is handled, it has no effect on virtual addresses.
A single process can have mapped into virtual memory at most 4GB at any one time. Typically, 32-bit OSes restrict this to 3GB or 2GB because they use some of the address space for kernel mappings.