From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 15:51:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108A716A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:51:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F211943D2D for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1GNpsOJ091188; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1GNprZC091187; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:51:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: ml@fruitbat.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <20040216235153.GC89536@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040126175234.GA28717@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc() over 4Gb X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:51:55 -0000 On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:00:39PM +0000, ml@fruitbat.demon.co.uk wrote: > I went out and bought the box and it does indeed seem to malloc() over > 4Gb. However, if you change the allocation from 7*GB to 8*GB in your > sample program, it still keels over inside malloc()! Define 'keels over'. Details please. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)