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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:11 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> The amount of RAM is not the issue, it is the size of the virtual address
> space. =A0You can lower maxdsiz on i386 to leave more room for mmap, and =
you
> can also change KVA_PAGES in the kernel to leave more address space for
> userland than for the kernel perhaps, but you won't get a whole lot more
> space that way (you might be able to map 2.5GB or so). =A0Moving to amd64=
 gives
> you a 64-bit virtual address space and you will be able to easily mmap()
> much, much more than 4GB out of the box.


i see. thanks for the explanation.
it seems i have to move to AMD64 and added more RAM.



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