From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 28 16: 2:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFE414DA5 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02302; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910282253.PAA02302@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Michael Beckmann Cc: Matthew Dillon , Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 01:13:48 +0200." <19991029011348.B2757@apfel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:53:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message