On 10/22/07, Richard Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there possible workarounds for my program to allocate more memory than 1GB?
you can mmap a large file with PROT_SHARED. this doesn't count as data, since you are in essence providing your own swap file for it. > Don't you think, that now when we have 64bit platform and RAM gets > very cheap, it would be really needed to increase this limit? i think the problem is more about what MAXDSIZ is used for than its value. it's not as simple as just bumping a number. and changing the meaning of a number is no easy change either. for the most part, the limit doesn't affect many people.
