Re: Ideas for memory management hackers (2)

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:27:14 +0100


On Nov 16, Hans-Christoph Rohland wrote:

> - 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...

Harald

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