Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:16:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: nisha@CS.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Max data segment size Message-ID: <199605100716.JAA23858@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605092258.PAA14319@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi Asami at "May 9, 96 03:58:50 pm"
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As Satoshi Asami wrote: > What are the rationales behind this being in a machine-specific system > header file, in other words, does this mean that I can't increase the > max data segment size beyond 128MB on an x86? Pending other explanations, i believe it's the size of the page tables (or page table directories?) reserved for these segments. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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