On 21-Feb-07, at 10:37 AM, Jens Lincke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> try more swap,
>
> I disabled my swap the second machine, so that I only have 500MB  
> real ram left
> an the vm did not crash.
>
> I enabled the swap and the vm crashed again... so I think it is
>
> an  issue of signed / unsigned int when memory over 1GB of RAM is  
> allocated.

It's an old issue; look up assorted reports of problems with > 2Gb  
pointers. The VM code is mostly written under the assumption that  
singed integers suffice for pointers and we really need to fix that.  
It's an issue of available time.


tim
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