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From: Paul Sargent <Paul.Sargent@3dlabs.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2GB process crashing on 2.4.14
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:23:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207132317.E31161@3dlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011207125821.D31161@3dlabs.com> <E16CKrx-0005nL-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16CKrx-0005nL-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:16:49PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Most probably the process is running out of address space to allocate from.
> There is 3Gb of available space. 

That would be from 0x00000000 to 0xC0000000, Right?

> Of that some is your stack, some your
> binary, some your libraries.  Getting above 3Gb/process on x86 is very hairy
> with a bad performance hit

So if I was hitting this limit then I should see no / very few gaps, in the
/proc/<pid>/maps. Is that true?

Paul

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-07 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-07 12:58 2GB process crashing on 2.4.14 Paul Sargent
2001-12-07 13:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 13:23   ` Paul Sargent [this message]
2001-12-07 13:48     ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 14:01       ` Paul Sargent
     [not found] <20011207125821.D31161@3dlabs.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <E16CKrx-0005nL-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20011207132317.E31161@3dlabs.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-12-07 14:02     ` Andi Kleen
2001-12-07 14:15       ` Paul Sargent

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