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Subject: A process needs more than 2GB memory
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>Number:         48906
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       A process needs more than 2GB memory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 03 19:30:12 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Tue Mar 04 18:30:38 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 04 18:30:38 PST 2003
>Originator:     Wei-Kai Wu
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Kavalan
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mail 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #5: Thu Feb 27 20:13:26 CST 2003 Wei-Kai@mail:/www/obj/usr/src/sys/MAIL i386

>Description:

My processes need about 2.5 GB RAM and 2.5 GB virtual address space
to finish correctly.

FreeBSD cannot allow a process to use more than 2 GB virtual address
because the other 2 GB (On a 32-bit machine, the total virtual
address space usable to a process is 4 GB) virtual address must be
reversed for the kernel.

May I do something to allow the process running on FreeBSD?
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: billf 
State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 4 18:29:05 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
check out the KVA_PAGES option in a LINT near you. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48906 
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