Re: 2GB process crashing on 2.4.14

Paul Sargent (Paul.Sargent@3dlabs.com)
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:23:17 +0000

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:16:49PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Most probably the process is running out of address space to allocate from.
> There is 3Gb of available space.

That would be from 0x00000000 to 0xC0000000, Right?

> Of that some is your stack, some your
> binary, some your libraries. Getting above 3Gb/process on x86 is very hairy
> with a bad performance hit

So if I was hitting this limit then I should see no / very few gaps, in the
/proc/<pid>/maps. Is that true?

Paul

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