Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/include

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:55:37AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >Modified Files:
> >     src/sys/arch/i386/include: vmparam.h
> >
> >Log Message:
> >Cut down MAXDSIZE from 3G to 2.5G otherwise bottomup allocation ends up
> >supplying an out of bounds hint for sigcode (c001e000 > bf000000). Makes
> >a.out binaries work again.
> 
> Will this make malloc fail 0.5GB earlier than before?

Which malloc? jemalloc uses mmap and doesn't count against MAXDSIZE.

Joerg