On Thursday 19 May 2005 12:26, Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! It seems that we are in need of a 'big usermem' kernel > patch in Debian, so I am considering contributing such a package. It > appears there are two approaches on the net, both in various > incarnations of redhat: > > 1) user-tunable /proc/self/mapped_base -- this allows setuid processes > to move the base address at which shared libs are mapped from the > default (on x86) of 0x40000000, allowing for much larger contiguous > brk *or* mmaped space (up to 2.7 GB -- the oracle docs appear to > refer to this. See also WOLK).
What about the 4/4 kernel patch? That should allow something > 3.5G of address space to be mapped contiguously. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
