[Linux-ia64] mmap limits

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* [Linux-ia64] mmap limits
@ 2002-03-14  7:07 Peter Chubb
  2002-03-15 19:51 ` David Mosberger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Peter Chubb @ 2002-03-14  7:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64

Hi,
	Is there any architectural reason why one should not be able
to mmap more than 2GB from /dev/zero, assuming there's enough physical
memory plus swap?

At present atempts to mmap more than 2G fail with ENOMEM, and I
believe this is a bug.

Peter C


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* Re: [Linux-ia64] mmap limits
  2002-03-14  7:07 [Linux-ia64] mmap limits Peter Chubb
@ 2002-03-15 19:51 ` David Mosberger
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Mosberger @ 2002-03-15 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64

>>>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:07:06 +1100, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:

  Peter> Hi, Is there any architectural reason why one should not be
  Peter> able to mmap more than 2GB from /dev/zero, assuming there's
  Peter> enough physical memory plus swap?

No.

  Peter> At present atempts to mmap more than 2G fail with ENOMEM, and
  Peter> I believe this is a bug.

Yes, sounds like it.

	--david

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