Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, that single 4GB of address space is divided up into kernel data > structures, which are in the address space of the process but subject > to various levels of MMU-provided memory protection, and the process' > own "user data." I believe the break

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-12 Thread John Baldwin
On 12-Mar-01 Joseph Gleason wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ian Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 23:41 > Subject: Re: G

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-12 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> I know very little about how kernel or low level processor stuff works, but > shouldn't we be able to do a 4GB process on a 32-bit system? > The limitation of 2GB per process should only be an issue if there is some > need to use signed numbers, right? Well, that single 4GB of address space is

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-11 Thread Paul Saab
> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 23:41 > > Subject: Re: Greater than 2GB per process > > > > > > > * Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 16:14] wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > >

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joseph Gleason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 20:48] wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ian Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, Ma

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-11 Thread Joseph Gleason
- Original Message - From: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ian Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 23:41 Subject: Re: Greater than 2GB per process > * Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010311 16:14] wrote: > > Hello, > Could anybody advise me on the possiblity of having greater than > 2GB per process on FreeBSD. I have tried increasing the limit beyond this > and the kernel compiles successfully - however libc caus

Greater than 2GB per process

2001-03-11 Thread Ian Campbell
Hello, Could anybody advise me on the possiblity of having greater than 2GB per process on FreeBSD. I have tried increasing the limit beyond this and the kernel compiles successfully - however libc causes every process to segfault. I am assuming that just recompiling the C library