Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:34:06 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: mmap for more than 2GB |
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Mihail Ionescu wrote:
> I am currently working on the porting of some programs from Solaris to > Linux. The main problem I have is that the original programs heavily use > mmap in order to access very big files (more than 4GB) (since it is a > 64 bits operating system), but on Linux mmap will fail. Is there any clean > way to solve this problem?
You could use a machine with 64 bits of address space.
Linux on Intel hardware cannot mmap() more than about 2 GB per process since the hardware doesn't support more.
regards,
Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
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