so this means that the comment of Fabrizio about the limit of 500 mb was only 
for windows.

Stef



> Not bad :)
> 
> Doru
> 
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:11 AM, jannik.laval <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:17 PM, jannik.laval wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I tried the VM included in Moose (moosetechnology.org).
>>>> If I remember well, it is a cog vm.
>>>> 
>>>> The maximal heap size is (precisely): 2138046463 bytes.
>>>> Why this number ? I don't know. But I will need more than 2Gb.
>>> 
>>> HI jannik
>>> 
>>> was the system usable?
>>> Because the problem with more memory is that you need specific GCes.
>> 
>> It seems.
>> I built a DSM on a 1300 packages system.
>> 
>> Jannik
>> 
>>> 
>>> Stef
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I will try the 64bits vm, and see.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jannik
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 7:51 PM, David T. Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>> 
>>>>> There is no regression in the interpreter VM ... well actually there was
>>>>> about 6 months back, but I keep an eye on it and it's fixed again now :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> The 32-bit interpreter VM will not fail on any 2GB or 4BG boundaries,
>>>>> and an interpreter VM compiled for the 64-bit object format can handle
>>>>> images greater than 7GB (probably much more, but my 8GB PC is too small
>>>>> to do anything larger).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure if all of the necessary fixes are in place for the StackVM
>>>>> and Cog. If not, I'm sure it will be addressed over time (it's just not
>>>>> something that I have ever checked).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I believe that Jannik is interested in running very large images, at
>>>>> least on an experimental basis. For anything over a few GB, this requires
>>>>> an interpreter VM and a 64-bit image. As you know, this is sure to run
>>>>> into problems for the garbage collector as the number of objects
>>>>> increases, but it would certainly be interesting to see how far the
>>>>> current garbage collector can go in real world conditions before it
>>>>> turns to mollasses.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dave
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:57:02AM -0400, John McIntosh wrote:
>>>>>> A few years back the interpreted virtual machine was fixed to allow an
>>>>>> image to grow to the 4 GB limit.
>>>>>> It is unclear to me if someone regressed the software to impose a 2GB 
>>>>>> limit
>>>>>> again, or if the 2GB number
>>>>>> mentioned is based on how things worked10 years ago?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:01 AM, St?phane Ducasse
>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:46 PM, johnmci wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> David Lewis and I spent a far amount of time a few years back  to make
>>>>>>> the 32
>>>>>>>> vm 4gb clean. So are you running on stale knowledge here, or does the 
>>>>>>>> vm
>>>>>>>> crash when to goes over 2gb?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> sorry my english limit does not let me know understanding what you mean
>>>>>>> exactly.
>>>>>>> Jannik in the context of moose would like to see if we can have image
>>>>>>> larger than 500 mb (on mac it should be possible).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Stef
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> Jannik Laval
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> Jannik Laval
>> 
>> 
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