> On Dec 9, 2015, at 16:24 , David Duncan <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> The virtual limit is 2GB on most devices right now, so you can use mmap() to 
> go beyond the dirty limit.

Hm, I wasn’t aware that was limited. 2GB seems like a lot normally, but there 
are databases engines like LMDB that map the entire database file into memory 
(instead of using a buffer cache), so this puts a ceiling on how much data you 
can manage that way.

—Jens
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