On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +0200, Zeljko Vrba wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I need to have user processes to allocate more than 1GB of memory, the
> default of MAXDSIZ on i386. What is the largest safe size? 3GB?

I think the OS needs "some special support"(tm) for more than 4GB.
I don't recall any details, I am sure others do.