From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Francis Moreau" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/17] Sliding window mmap for packfiles. Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:56:59 +0100 Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0612240056k152344ael891e9b0b9f8cbc47@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061223073317.GA9837@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 24 09:57:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GyPAQ-00072y-Mv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:57:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754187AbWLXI5A (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:57:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754209AbWLXI5A (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:57:00 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]:27183 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754187AbWLXI5A (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:57:00 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h27so3245191wxd for ; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:56:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZuSYJGFfNn4FLFetbJ1/kp5hfvcbWH8FIQ+tj+sMT3FPFE8soTu+K8So0g6aGtd536bpJdWwymQRGisaeKH/I/mSVoeOS/meYxxN3ypuqzL8drdTgoxHMSHNiNIW9pLnbiihxJEgPP+vjgtvWjuRi94IUE+e3UqUX0CZLizPw2w= Received: by 10.90.105.20 with SMTP id d20mr10027049agc.1166950619395; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:56:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.106.16 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:56:59 -0800 (PST) To: "Shawn O. Pearce" In-Reply-To: <20061223073317.GA9837@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On 12/23/06, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > This 17 patch series implements my much discussed, but never produced [snip] > > This series also permits accessing packfiles up to 4 GiB in size, > even on systems which permit only 2 GiB of virtual memory within > a single process (e.g. Windows and some older UNIXes). Of course Just out of curiosity, do you mean that there are some OS running on 32 bits machines which allow 4GiB size of virtual memory within a single process ? If so, could you give an example of such OS ? thanks -- Francis