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by jcranmer 2068 days ago
It's 256TiB of virtual address space. If you include NVMe drives memory-mapped into the address space, hitting that cap is not entirely unreasonable.

Intel added support for 5-level page tables (bumping virtual memory to 2^57 bytes) a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging.