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SubjectRe: malloc problem to allocate very large blocks
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On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 05:58, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
> AFAIK malloc will not return you memory more than the total virtual memory
> (RAM+swap) in the system. So if you want more than 2GB allocations from
> malloc, make sure you have at least 2GB virtual mem, keeping aside some
> space for the kernel.

On the default memory settings it may do. However a request for 2Gb of
memory requires there is a free 2Gb of address space to map it into -
which may not be true because of things like shared libraries.

The actual total allocatable limit for x86 is a bit under 3Gb, but you
won't get that as one linear allocation. (1Gb is kernel mappings)

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