Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
There is no failure as of yet. The thing is that I know someone who
actually NEEDS 3GB, and they asked me to make sure that Wine can
support that. I am, of course, talking about a Linux kernel that is
compiled with bigmem support too.
bigmem shouldn't matter, you can allocate 3Gb with a normal
kernel.
Can you? I was under the impression that some addresses are reserved for
kernel addresses, or is that above 3GB?
It's probably not possible with the default mmap algorithm
though, this will need to be worked around.
I don't think mmap not working would be a problem. I don't believe it's
mmap that they are after. Still, for completness' sake, it would be nice
if we had that too.
Do you know why they
absolutely need 3Gb, and what they are doing with it?
Basically, they are keeping huge database-like memory structures in
memory for quick access. They are actually working on machines with 3GB
of RAM, and they need it accessable. I will need to run some tests, but
I think that they mostly do memory allocation and filling, not mmaps.
Shachar
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