Date: 06 Jun 2002 14:38:15 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: allocating memory Message-ID: <xzpbsaok2fc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <3CFEEB99.AEDC5DB9@math.missouri.edu> References: <3CFEEB99.AEDC5DB9@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> writes:
> I have access to a rather large computer (3GB of RAM) and I would like
> to write a program to access most of this memory. I find that I am
> unable to malloc more than about 0.5 GB of memory, even if I do it in
> small increments. Now I am trying mmap, and this lets me get to about
> 2.5 GB of memory (again I ask for the memory in small increments). What
> is it that causes these limitations?
man limits, and see MAX{DSIZ,SSIZ} in NOTES.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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