Re: Shared Arena Size

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Ran Yakir (rany++at++bvr.co.il)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 11:25:26 +0200

Angus Dorbie wrote:

> 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.
>

So now the question becomes: why does the arena size on my machine limited to
500,000,000 ? My machine has 1000MB swap space and 768MB of host mem.

Ran

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