Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:41:30 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ian Campbell <ianc@ednet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Greater than 2GB per process Message-ID: <20010311204130.N18351@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31L2.0103120005460.9179-100000@pachabel.ednet.co.uk>; from ianc@ednet.co.uk on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:13:53AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.31L2.0103120005460.9179-100000@pachabel.ednet.co.uk>
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* Ian Campbell <ianc@ednet.co.uk> [010311 16:14] wrote: > > Hello, > Could anybody advise me on the possiblity of having greater than > 2GB per process on FreeBSD. I have tried increasing the limit beyond this > and the kernel compiles successfully - however libc causes every process > to segfault. I am assuming that just recompiling the C library wouldn't do > the trick but perhaps someone could confirm this. It's not possible on the Intel archetecture with the current system, changing the current intel system to use > 2GB processes would cost too much in terms of performance (64 bit values on a 32 bit system). At least that's what i've been told. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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