On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:25:52PM +0100, Technolord wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> I have the absolute need to allow a user to have plenty of memory.
> I have configured swapctl to use a 4GB file in addition to the
> pre-existing 512MB swap partition.
> 'top' says there are 512MB swap. 'swapctl -l' says 4.5GB. Where is the
> bug?

i386, I guess ?
i386 is a 32bit CPU. 2^32 = 4Gb. Looks like we have a int overvlow but in
top.

> But, apart from that, apparently the user is still limited. Working with
> ulimit -H I managed to say everything as "unlimited" (except for locked
> memory :), but the "-v" ("virtual memory") cannot be set, and is stuck at
> ~1GB :(
> Alas, 1GB isn't enough for the program to complete (!!!), I need to try
> with 2GB. How can I do that?

By getting a 64bit CPU (ultrasparc or alpha). You're reaching the limits
of a 32bit architecture here.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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