Deadlock with 32GB swap-backed md
David Gilbert
dgilbert at dclg.ca
Thu Jan 6 11:39:55 PST 2005
>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:
[ on i386 mfs ]
>> Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit
>> pointers in i386?
Kris> Yes, but apparently they're used for block-level indexing and
Kris> not just byte-level.
regardless, unlike disks, there is no sector pointers in memory ---
the memory allocator is still fundamentally limited.
Dave.
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