Re: Shared Arena Size

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 01:13:31 -0800

On Jan 22, 8:03am, Ran Yakir wrote:
> Subject: Shared Arena Size
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I try to set the shared arena size to a size larger than
> 500,000,000, I get the wrong size from pfGetSharedArenaSize. It seems
> like the number is wrapping around, or being truncated. For example, a
> size of 600,000,000 gives back 300,000,000. A size of 1,200,000,000 also
> gives 300,000,000, and a size of 900,000,000 gives 450,000,000

The size gets halved untill the request succeeds, this policy seems to
explain your figures if you assume a limit of around 500Mb on your
system, although there may be other problems which cause this arena
limit of ~500,000,000.

Cheers,Angus.

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