On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:47 -0500, William Ricker wrote: > > This is at best 2/3 correct. > > > First you're right that mmap has a 2 GB limit because it maps > > things into your address space, and so the size of your pointers > > limit what you can address. > (unless you have 64bit pointers of course)
No, even without 64 bit pointers, you can have a 4GB address space (not signed). The trick is that under Linux you're usually limited to 3GB because the rest is reserved and other OSes impose other similar limitations. I have worked with an application that allocates about 2.5GB of RAM on startup, so I have occasion to know this ;-) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
