Re: increasing KVA_PAGES and broken pthreads

2003-03-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Mark Tinguely wrote: > Intel x86 hardware allows windows of 4GB of virtual memory even if > you have the PSE-36 and the PAE extensions with more the 4GB of > physical memory. Sound a little like Intel's 64KB windows, but > if I remember correctly, the 4GB does not have to be contiguous. > > It wou

Re: increasing KVA_PAGES and broken pthreads

2003-03-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Kinney wrote: > Really? I was under the impression that FreeBSD was capable of > addressing 8TB of RAM if the hardware supports it. Don't > remember which FreeBSD list archive I read that in, but it's not a > topic that seems to come up often since most hardware is limited > to 4GB of addr

Re: increasing KVA_PAGES and broken pthreads

2003-03-15 Thread Mark Tinguely
Intel x86 hardware allows windows of 4GB of virtual memory even if you have the PSE-36 and the PAE extensions with more the 4GB of physical memory. Sound a little like Intel's 64KB windows, but if I remember correctly, the 4GB does not have to be contiguous. It would require a true MMU such as th

Re: increasing KVA_PAGES and broken pthreads

2003-03-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Andrew Kinney wrote: > On 14 Mar 2003, at 16:08, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > That patch is in the RELENG_4 tree and will be included in 4.8 > > > > Great! Thanks for the info. > > > > > yes it was.. but not in RELENG_4_7 because that is for security > > patches.

Re: increasing KVA_PAGES and broken pthreads

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Kinney
On 14 Mar 2003, at 16:08, Julian Elischer wrote: > > That patch is in the RELENG_4 tree and will be included in 4.8 > Great! Thanks for the info. > > yes it was.. but not in RELENG_4_7 because that is for security > patches. > I'm showing my newbieness here. :-) Apologies. I knew that,

Re: increasing KVA_PAGES and broken pthreads

2003-03-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Andrew Kinney wrote: > Hello, > > I'm brand new to this list so feel free to tell me to search the > archives if this question has already been answered. I have already > done some searching and only found limited and/or antiquated > information on the subject, though,

increasing KVA_PAGES and broken pthreads

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Kinney
Hello, I'm brand new to this list so feel free to tell me to search the archives if this question has already been answered. I have already done some searching and only found limited and/or antiquated information on the subject, though, so I'm pretty sure this hasn't been addressed yet. Does