Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 15:41:12 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit address space on alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907181540560.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19990718123721.A88813@cicely8.cicely.de>
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 09:27:14AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > > I would like to mmap a large file into a single process address space. > > > Is it save to increase MAXDSIZ to more than 4G? > > > If not is there already work in progress? > > > > It should be safe to increase MAXDSIZ. The maximum user address space is > > about 4T on FreeBSD/alpha. I have programs which mmap about 12G of device > > addresses. > I tried to compile a kernel with MAXDSIZ set to 128G and got several overflow > compiler warnings: > > Are these realy save to ignore? I'll check. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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