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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:04:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4G file limit now? :)
Message-ID:  <199804031904.OAA17231@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199804031826.MAA28198@home.dragondata.com> from Kevin Day at "Apr 3, 98 12:26:24 pm"

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> 
> 
> On a -current system cvsupped about a week ago:
> 
> panic: free: address 0xffffffff out of range
> 
> Poking around:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  bin  4294967314 Apr  3 12:07 httpd-access.log
> 
> 
> Is this a 4G limit somewhere I hit? I know i've had files much bigger than
> this before... Or was this some fluke? :)
> 
> And I don't have a trace, thought I had a core dump, but didn't.... After I
> rebooted, I was able to run just fine though.... (i'm well past 4G by now)
> 
> 
This is bad.  I can imagine a user level program not handling a big file
correctly, however the kernel should not panic.  I'll try to look at it,
especially since I represent the fact that FreeBSD supports > 4GB files
easily.  (mmap is problematical though, unless you are using your 64 bit
P3 processor :-)).

John

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