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Date:      Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:32:52 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64bit address space on alpha
Message-ID:  <19990718123251.A88741@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907180924250.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 09:27:14AM %2B0100
References:  <19990717214226.A87224@cicely8.cicely.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907180924250.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 09:27:14AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> > I would like to mmap a large file into a single process address space.
> > Is it save to increase MAXDSIZ to more than 4G?
> > If not is there already work in progress?
> 
> It should be safe to increase MAXDSIZ. The maximum user address space is
> about 4T on FreeBSD/alpha. I have programs which mmap about 12G of device
> addresses.
Mmm 4T interesting...
My Documentation says that my 21066 is limited to 43Bit Vitual - which should
be something around 4T
Applys the 43Bit limit to modern alpha CPUs too or is FreeBSD limiting.

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B.Walter                  COSMO-Project              http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de             Usergroup                info@cosmo-project.de



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