3GB address space

[Shachar Shemesh]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> writes:
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>>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.
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>bigmem shouldn't matter, you can allocate 3Gb with a normal
>kernel.
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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.
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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?
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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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