Deadlock with 32GB swap-backed md

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:39:50PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/323

Kris
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