On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:15, Hartmut Manz wrote: > but I am only able to allocate 2 GB with a single malloc call. > I tought it should be possible to allocate up to 2.9 GB of memory to a > process, with this kernel settings. have you tried your own anonymous mmap() with start set to getpagesize() ? -- // Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk) lynx --source www.scaramanga.co.uk/gianni-at-ecsc.asc | gpg --import 8646BE7D: 6D9F 2287 870E A2C9 8F60 3A3C 91B5 7669 8646 BE7D