Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:32:52 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit address space on alpha Message-ID: <19990718123251.A88741@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907180924250.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 09:27:14AM %2B0100 References: <19990717214226.A87224@cicely8.cicely.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907180924250.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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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. Mmm 4T interesting... My Documentation says that my 21066 is limited to 43Bit Vitual - which should be something around 4T Applys the 43Bit limit to modern alpha CPUs too or is FreeBSD limiting. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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