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On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
>
> I always thought that the limit was 2 GB, not 1 GB.

The 1GB limit is because the Linux kernel's memory layout only leaves a
1GB slot for use by mmap in the bottom 4GB of address space.

Tony.
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