Re: Increasing virtual address space of a process, by treating virtual address's as offsets in secondary memory.

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 10:12 +0530, vamsi krishna wrote: > I was searching a lot about work on this, and found your reply where > you say that we can increase the virtual address space by mmaping and > munmaping programatically ourself. Its something a few giant applications do with data sets and t

Increasing virtual address space of a process, by treating virtual address's as offsets in secondary memory.

2005-07-17 Thread vamsi krishna
Hello Alan, mm-hackers, I have been working this idea of increasing virtual address space of a process with the help of secondary memory. At first this may seem like the same virtual memory concept but its not the case. Imagine all the virtual address the compiler generates while creating the bin