Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Increasing virtual address space of a process, by treating virtual address's as offsets in secondary memory. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:45:52 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2005-07-18 at 10:12 +0530, vamsi krishna wrote: > I was searching a lot about work on this, and found your reply where > you say that we can increase the virtual address space by mmaping and > munmaping programatically ourself.
Its something a few giant applications do with data sets and the trick of using shared memory segments works on most Linux or Unixlike systems. It's almost a historical note now. With 64bit processors its no longer worth the pain
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