01-23-2006
32 bit systems have an intrinsic process size limit, imposed by the available address space of a 32 bit pointer. If you assume P0 (kernel) uses ~150 MB of address space, then you would hit the virtual limit when process space (P1 space) grows to around 3.9GB.
AFAIK, all 32bit Linux distros have that limit. It has nothing to do with RAM size or swapfile. Windows and OpenVMS have the same problem.
Do you have a serious memory leak problem in your apps?
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mlockall
MLOCKALL(2) BSD System Calls Manual MLOCKALL(2)
NAME
mlockall, munlockall -- lock (unlock) the address space of a process
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/mman.h>
int
mlockall(int flags);
int
munlockall(void);
DESCRIPTION
The mlockall system call locks into memory the physical pages associated with the address space of a process until the address space is
unlocked, the process exits, or execs another program image.
The following flags affect the behavior of mlockall:
MCL_CURRENT Lock all pages currently mapped into the process's address space.
MCL_FUTURE Lock all pages mapped into the process's address space in the future, at the time the mapping is established. Note that this
may cause future mappings to fail if those mappings cause resource limits to be exceeded.
Since physical memory is a potentially scarce resource, processes are limited in how much they can lock down. A single process can lock the
minimum of a system-wide ``wired pages'' limit and the per-process RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit.
The munlockall call unlocks any locked memory regions in the process address space. Any regions mapped after an munlockall call will not be
locked.
RETURN VALUES
A return value of 0 indicates that the call succeeded and all pages in the range have either been locked or unlocked. A return value of -1
indicates an error occurred and the locked status of all pages in the range remains unchanged. In this case, the global location errno is
set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
mlockall() will fail if:
[EINVAL] The flags argument is zero, or includes unimplemented flags.
[ENOMEM] Locking the indicated range would exceed either the system or per-process limit for locked memory.
[EAGAIN] Some or all of the memory mapped into the process's address space could not be locked when the call was made.
[EPERM] The calling process does not have the appropriate privilege to perform the requested operation.
SEE ALSO
mincore(2), mlock(2), mmap(2), munmap(2), setrlimit(2)
STANDARDS
The mlockall() and munlockall() functions conform to IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The mlockall() and munlockall() functions first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.
BUGS
The per-process resource limit is a limit on the amount of virtual memory locked, while the system-wide limit is for the number of locked
physical pages. Hence a process with two distinct locked mappings of the same physical page counts as 2 pages against the per-process limit
and as only a single page in the system limit.
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June 12, 1999 BSD