Non-Windows 32 bit platforms tend to only give you 2GB address space per process.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/vm_memory_monitor.erl b/src/vm_memory_monitor.erl
index a07f6c6545..369ec65596 100644
--- a/src/vm_memory_monitor.erl
+++ b/src/vm_memory_monitor.erl
@@ -221,11 +221,11 @@ get_vm_limit({win32,_OSname}) ->
         8 -> 8*1024*1024*1024*1024      %% 8 TB for 64 bits  2^42
     end;
 
-%% On a 32-bit machine, if you're using more than 4 gigs of RAM you're
+%% On a 32-bit machine, if you're using more than 2 gigs of RAM you're
 %% in big trouble anyway.
 get_vm_limit(_OsType) ->
     case erlang:system_info(wordsize) of
-        4 -> 4*1024*1024*1024;          %% 4 GB for 32 bits  2^32
+        4 -> 2*1024*1024*1024;          %% 2 GB for 32 bits  2^31
         8 -> 256*1024*1024*1024*1024    %% 256 TB for 64 bits 2^48
              %%http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Virtual_address_space_details
     end.