max memory allocation

Brad Fitzpatrick brad@danga.com
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:15:16 -0700 (PDT)


Crap.

At least Linux and OSX got ~2GB.

But that's with malloc.  We should do another test with mmap.


On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Mahlon E. Smith wrote:

> > We're hoping to avoid fragmenting objects, if we can get a large,
> > contiguous region from libc.
> >
> > Let us know your platform in your email.  (BSD, OSX, etc...)
>
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> FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
> gcc version 2.95.4
> max alloc = 511 M
>
> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
> gcc version 3.2.2
> max alloc = 511 M
>
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