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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:53:20 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Michael Beckmann <petzi@apfel.de>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Limitations in FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199910282253.PAA02302@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 01:13:48 %2B0200." <19991029011348.B2757@apfel.de> 

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> That=B4s why I=B4m looking for a way of having large mmap=B4able =

> files. Are you saying that ALL Intel CPUs, including PIII, can only =

> address 4 GB? =


That's correct; it's why the ia32 architecture has a '32' in its name.

> I probably need to look at other architectures or solve this fd problem=
=2E

How many fd's do you plan to have open?  How severe is the performance =

penalty (have you actually measured it yet, or are you just going on =

word of mouth)?

-- =

\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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