Re: Ideas for memory management hackers (2)
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:05:14 +0000 (GMT)
> > - VM areas are limited to 128MB. This leads to many swap-files. (I am
> > not quite shure about further limitation. Does it mean that bigger
> > mmaps are not possible? The swapfile limitation is definitely in the
> > kernel.)
>
> no more than 128MB shared memory AFAIK?! this is bad for some (big) databases...
The kernel is happy with > 128Mbytes, the only limit is on physical memory
(1Gig) and virtual (3Gig). The limit he refers to is swap file/partition size
per partition and is becoming an irritiation in itself for osme