Re: 2GB process crashing on 2.4.14

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:48:00 +0000 (GMT)


> > 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?

Correct (0xBFFFFFFF)

> > 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?

Providing the memory allocator it is using is sufficiently smart
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