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From: mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] Huge virtual space I need badly.
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Date: 16 Dec 92 19:19:44 GMT
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I need the huge virtual space for 386BSD.

I found that the current limitation is as little as 32MB.

I would like to use as large as 1GB of virtual memory for one 
process or program to do the large FEM computations. 
( I allocated 2GB of HDD for that. Don't tell me that I should not 
  do the pagings.  The algorithm is quite efficient to suppress the 
  paging to minimal. )

I tried to change the parameters in the header files to 
reconfigure the kernel.  However, it seems my change is not 
correct enough.  I guess I do not know enough to do the right 
modifications.  With huge size of pages, probably many part of
the sourcecode of the kernel need to be modified, I guess.

Has anyone succesfully using the 386BSD with larger virtual 
space per process than just 32MB ?

What is the logical limit of the virtual memory size per process
of the currect implementation of the 386BSD system ? I would like
to know.

Oh please, if anyone know the right way to expand the limitation,
please post the direction.

Than you.

	Hiroshi Murakami
	mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp