From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 5: 4:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C7637B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 05:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ness.plymouth.edu (ness.plymouth.edu [158.136.1.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3417443FCB for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 05:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ted@ness.plymouth.edu) Received: from ness.plymouth.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ness.plymouth.edu (8.12.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h2DD4b7p046724 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:04:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from ted@localhost) by ness.plymouth.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2DD4bBY046723 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:04:37 -0500 (EST) From: Ted Wisniewski Message-Id: <200303131304.h2DD4bBY046723@ness.plymouth.edu> Subject: MMAP 2GB Limit To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:04:37 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Currently mmap(2) is limited to 2GB as described in the man pages; does anyone know if that limitation will be lifted in the near future either in the 4.X branch or in the 5.X branch? We have a package called "ldm" which uses mmap on large files and we are concerned about this limit for the future. If someone knows and can get back to me it would be a big help. Thanks, Ted -- | Ted Wisniewski E-Mail: ted@mail.plymouth.edu | | Manager, Systems Group WEB: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ted/ | | Information Technology Services | | Plymouth State College Phone: (603) 535-2661 | | Plymouth NH, 03264 Fax: (603) 535-2263 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message