Re: strange stack limit behavior when allocating more than 2GB mem on 32bit machine
Michał Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:04:11 +0200, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > Clear. But how comes 2000MB can be allocated when stack limit is unlimited? > > $ ulimit -s > unlimited > $ ./malloc 2046 > Malloc succeeded > $ ./malloc 2047 > malloc failed: Cannot allocate memory <==== the critical > point for my case is 2046MB Because, there is a large enough continuous area in address space. I'm not sure how to answer that differently. PS. Again, do not top post and remove unnecessary comments and signatures. -- Best regards, _ _ .o. | Liege of Serenly Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o ..o | Computer Science, Micha³ "mina86" Nazarewicz (o o) ooo +----<[email protected]>---<[email protected]>-ooO----(_)--Ooo-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html