On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Doug White wrote: > > However we have a situation where if I set MAXDSIZ to 2048 or above then > > things break, so FreeBSD right now has an effectivce limit of 2GB per > > process. > > > > Is this to be considered a bug or a feature? > > I'd have to say feature. The kernel placement and user/kernel boundary > sizing is part of FreeBSD and the 4GB limit for both kernel and user is a > restriction of the processor architecture.
Thanks for the definitive reply! > > This is relevant to the work we're doing - some of my users actually > > really do need this amount of memory. > > If this is the case then you should consider a 64 bit architecture, like > ia64, sparc64, or amd64 (Opteron). Aah, but at the mo the 32bit systems are way way cheaper... -- Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 cel: +27-82-494 3828 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
