The 32-bit AIX Virtual Memory Model

AIX® assigns a virtual address space partitioned into 16 segments of 256 MB.

Processing address space to data is managed at the segment level, so a data segment can either be shared (between processes), or private.

The AIX 32–Bit Memory Model with MAXDATA=0 (default)


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