Re: Can a process use up more than 910MB?

[Lincoln Dale]

At 16:13 06/01/00 +0100, Peter Tufvesson wrote:
>I have now tried the program below on 2.2.12, 2.2.13, 2.3.36 (High memory
>support: Off, 4GB and 64GB) with the same result:
>
>My program can only allocate 910MB !!!
>
>What can be done about this? I need at least 2GB of virtual memory per
>process. I thought Linux could handle this?

linux can handle it.

you need your malloc library to support getting additional pages via mmap().
brk() will only allow you to allocate up to ~910M.

the simplest way of explaining this is for you to download dlmalloc and use 
that.
see http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html

cheers,

lincoln.