Date: 23 Feb 2003 14:41:42 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: datasize higher than 512Mo or 2 Gb ? Message-ID: <44bs123hu1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030221110301.GA10096@trefle.ens.fr> References: <20030221110301.GA10096@trefle.ens.fr>
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Jacques Beigbeder <Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr> writes: > Someone said on Jan 16th: > Adding kern.maxdsiz="2147483647" to /boot/loader.conf ... > > This means that now kern.maxdsiz is 2 Gb. > > Does FreeBSD 5.0 supports higher values? I now have a PC > with 4 Gb of memory... and I want to use all that > memory for a single process. > > Or is there some patch to raise this 2Gb limit? You'll probably need to adjust the KVA_PAGES (which, if I recall correctly, splits the space evenly between kernel and user space), but there's no way you can get all the way to 4GB, because the kernel needs *some* of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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