Unix Programming - Re: apparent 4 GB memory limit for brk() in solaris 8 on some

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Re: apparent 4 GB memory limit for brk() in solaris 8 on some

Stefaan A Eeckels

2005-07-29, 6:01 pm

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:41:16 +0200
Grumble <devnull@kma.eu.org> wrote:

> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>
> Would ulimit -a (in bash) provide the same information?

On solaris, the shells are 32-bit executables. This little ditty (if
compiled as I indicated, with -xarch=v9) will give the 64-bit limit
set by the OS.

Take care,

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Stefaan
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