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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:27:26 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: "Oleg A. Yurlov" <kris@spylog.com>
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Subject: Re: "3.5GB user address space" option.
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Oleg A. Yurlov wrote:

>         How I can use 3.5GB in my apps ? I try malloc() and get
> error on 2G bounce... :-(

You may want to use the 'hoard' memory allocation library,
it seems a bit smarter than glibc's malloc in getting all
the address space your program wants.

1) install libhoard
2) export LD_PRELOAD=libhoard.so
3) run the program

cheers,

Rik
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