From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: "Gabriel.Leen" <Gabriel.Leen@ul.ie>,
"'linux-mm@kvack.org'" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Process not given >890MB on a 4MB machine ?????????
Date: 21 Sep 2001 02:29:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1sndh7xqb.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010920165622.B22441@redhat.com>
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:25:37PM +0100, Gabriel.Leen wrote:
> > Hello,
> > The problem in a nutshell is:
> >
> > a) I have a 4GB ram 1.7Gh Xeon box
> > b) I'm running a process which requires around 3GB of ram
> > c) RedHat 2.4.9 will only give it 890MB, then core dumps with the warning
> > "segmentation fault"
> > when it reaches this memory usage and "asks for more"
>
> That's a limitation of the current memory layout. If you compile your
> program statically (gcc -static), then you should be able to use closer
> to 3GB.
But note the maximum possible memory usage for a single process on x86 with 2.4.x
is 3GB...
Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-21 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-20 19:25 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-20 19:56 ` brian
2001-09-20 20:36 ` Thierry Vignaud
2001-09-20 20:56 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-21 8:29 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-09-21 16:07 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-22 2:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 21:15 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-24 22:16 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-24 22:41 Gabriel.Leen
2001-09-24 21:16 ` Joseph A Knapka
2001-09-25 10:59 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-09-25 17:36 ` afei
2001-09-26 7:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-26 8:53 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
[not found] <5D2F375D116BD111844C00609763076E050D1681@exch-staff1.ul.ie>
2001-09-24 22:49 ` Rik van Riel
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