I'm running on a 64-bit version of openSuse 12.1 with a 3.6 vanilla kernel.
I find that if I try to use a read size of > (2G-8K), I get partial read
errors.
Ishtar:> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 49487868 31923108 17564760 0 1077920 18871456
-/+ buffers/cache: 11973732 37514136
Swap: 8393924 18308 8375616
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Should have plenty of memory. I do have huge page support turned on.
ulimit doesn't look to be the problem (tried as root)
core file size (blocks, -c) 100000
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 386074
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 512
max memory size (kbytes, -m) 42064712
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 386074
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 46305440
file locks (-x) unlimited
