Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:13:44 -0600 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Paul Dlug <paul@aps.org> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heap size limit Message-ID: <20040618161344.GA81161@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <9AB72474-C13D-11D8-9D52-000393BB3E22@aps.org> References: <09BFCAF4-952D-11D8-822D-000393BB3E22@aps.org> <20040522174956.GA61678@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <40B1AAE7.4020903@noc.ntua.gr> <9AB72474-C13D-11D8-9D52-000393BB3E22@aps.org>
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:38:54AM -0400, Paul Dlug wrote: > >Why you can't mmap up to 3 GB of memory, I don't know. Perhaps we > >should take it to -current or -hackers. > > Have you followed up on this? I was wondering if anyone had a solution. > I'd post myself to -current or -hackers but I'm not sure I can > adequately explain the problem. Read the "BUGS" section of the mmap(2) manual page. That gives a pretty good explanation of why you can't mmap(2) more than 2GB at the moment. It looks very much like a "hard" limit too, i.e. you would need some serious hacking to increase the limit, its not a tuneable. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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