Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:39:50 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: Deadlock with 32GB swap-backed md Message-ID: <16861.37894.594718.45777@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050106192951.GA95658@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050106025042.GA26670@xor.obsecurity.org> <16861.24998.55471.171529@canoe.dclg.ca> <20050106192951.GA95658@xor.obsecurity.org>
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>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: [ on i386 mfs ] >> Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit >> pointers in i386? Kris> Yes, but apparently they're used for block-level indexing and Kris> not just byte-level. regardless, unlike disks, there is no sector pointers in memory --- the memory allocator is still fundamentally limited. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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