Re: Process not given >890MB on a 4MB machine ?????????

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

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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