* [Linux-ia64] mmap limits
@ 2002-03-14 7:07 Peter Chubb
2002-03-15 19:51 ` David Mosberger
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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
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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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