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Subject: Re: allocate more than 2 GB on IA32
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: Hartmut Manz <manz@intes.de>
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On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:15, Hartmut Manz wrote:
> but I am only able to allocate 2 GB with a single malloc call.
> I tought it should be possible to allocate up to 2.9 GB of memory to a
> process, with this kernel settings.

have you tried your own anonymous mmap() with start set to getpagesize()
?

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