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Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:46:11 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        descarte@fruitbat.demon.co.uk
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD AMD64 malloc(), mmap()
Message-ID:  <20040125034611.GA15570@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1AkXJA-000JS3-0Z@anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net>
References:  <E1AkXJA-000JS3-0Z@anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net>

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:35:20PM +0000, descarte@fruitbat.demon.co.uk wro=
te:
>=20
> Hi. I can't find a direct answer for these two linked questions, hence
> the query to this email address.
>=20
> We're looking into FreeBSD running on Athlon64 processors to give us the
> ability to handle seriously huge datasets. We did buy a G5 machine, but
> their implementation of BSD seems still only able to malloc() up to a
> 4Gb process limit which is hardly what their advertising says!
>=20
> Therefore, does the AMD64 FreeBSD port allow you to malloc() or mmap()
> past this 4Gb per process limit. We're typically wanting to address up
> to 256Gb in a single process.
>=20
> Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.

I believe the answer is 'yes', but you should ask on the freebsd-amd64
mailing list.

Kris

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