Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:42:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Deadlock with 32GB swap-backed md Message-ID: <20050106194239.GA96074@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <16861.37894.594718.45777@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <20050106025042.GA26670@xor.obsecurity.org> <16861.24998.55471.171529@canoe.dclg.ca> <20050106192951.GA95658@xor.obsecurity.org> <16861.37894.594718.45777@canoe.dclg.ca>
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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:39:50PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Kris" =3D=3D Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: >=20 > [ on i386 mfs ] >=20 > >> Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit > >> pointers in i386? >=20 > Kris> Yes, but apparently they're used for block-level indexing and > Kris> not just byte-level. >=20 > regardless, unlike disks, there is no sector pointers in memory --- > the memory allocator is still fundamentally limited. http://kerneltrap.org/node/323 Kris --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB3ZSuWry0BWjoQKURApATAJ0UQyJUeC2nx6SevvZee7q6JRUj5QCgiudA 826+a58xno7CnX0b4G5/KkE= =ipNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--
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