On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:03:27AM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > My point was that that is false. not only is it false, but a few months ago we were running an application (with nsz) where on one computer about 10 processes mmapped a 3.5GB file all at once, perfectly happily. (They were 64 bit computers of course.)
the same thing also worked with just 2GB of physical ram (although it was a bit of a strain, in production systems we used 8GB). Mate