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´s why I´m looking for a way of having large mmap´able > 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. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messagehelp
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