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From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: Hartmut Manz <manz@intes.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: allocate more than 2 GB on IA32
Date: 11 Feb 2003 09:31:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1044955906.1117.54.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302111015.54223.manz@intes.de>

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On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:15, Hartmut Manz wrote:
> but I am only able to allocate 2 GB with a single malloc call.
> I tought it should be possible to allocate up to 2.9 GB of memory to a
> process, with this kernel settings.

have you tried your own anonymous mmap() with start set to getpagesize()
?

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-11  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-11  9:15 allocate more than 2 GB on IA32 Hartmut Manz
2003-02-11  9:31 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2003-02-11  9:33 ` ÷ÉÔÁÌÉÊ
2003-02-11 16:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-20 17:40   ` Hartmut Manz
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2003-02-11 17:21 Manfred Spraul

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