On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:23 -0700, Vikram wrote: > Hi, I have a test process which continuously mallocs memory and I find > it stops at 2.625Gb. Shouldn't it malloc upto 3Gb (given the standard > split is 3/1Gb). > > Furthermore on that box I ran a kernel compiled with HIGHMEM support > (64G,HIGHPTE all options turned on). There was no difference to malloc > however and I still errored out at the same limit. which kernel? 2.6.11 and later should go to 2.9 Gb or so (and if you use the 4g/4g patch you can go to like 3.9) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
