IIUC, PA-RISC chips have a segmented architecture, just like the old 80x86, except that the segments are up to 4Gb instead of 64Kb. Unless HP-UX uses them very differently than MPEiX (with which I am more familiar), the kernel doesn't use much if any of that space; it's just process data. (though memory mapped files may use some, and there will be a division of what's available between the heap and the stack.)