From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: vamsi krishna <vamsi.krishnak@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Increasing virtual address space of a process, by treating virtual address's as offsets in secondary memory.
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:45:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121687153.12438.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3faf056805071721422594dd20@mail.gmail.com>
On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 10:12 +0530, vamsi krishna wrote:
> I was searching a lot about work on this, and found your reply where
> you say that we can increase the virtual address space by mmaping and
> munmaping programatically ourself.
Its something a few giant applications do with data sets and the trick
of using shared memory segments works on most Linux or Unixlike systems.
It's almost a historical note now. With 64bit processors its no longer
worth the pain
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2005-07-18 4:42 Increasing virtual address space of a process, by treating virtual address's as offsets in secondary memory vamsi krishna
2005-07-18 11:45 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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