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by **Girish Daje** » Thu, 02 Aug 2001 02:41:03

We currently run on Solaris 2.6 & have an application using memory mapped
file. We need to go beyond the 2GB limit on the memory mapped file.

Can this be done on Solaris 2.6? If yes, how?

Can this be done on Solaris 7/8? If yes, how?

Thanks for the help in advance.

Girish

by **Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engine** » Sat, 04 Aug 2001 18:53:41

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>We currently run on Solaris 2.6 & have an application using memory mapped
>file. We need to go beyond the 2GB limit on the memory mapped file.
>Can this be done on Solaris 2.6? If yes, how?

You can mmap() portions of files >= 2GB. You cannot mmap() bits larger
than 2GB (perhaps the limit is somewhere between 2-4GB, as long as you
have a whole sufficiently large in your address space)

More than 4GB will certainly not fit in a 32 bit process address space.

Quote:>Can this be done on Solaris 7/8? If yes, how?

Easily in 64 bit processes.

Casper
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