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Today's Topics:
1. 64 bit development -- Is mmap() of over 4GB possible on OS X
10.4/10.5? (Jamil J. Weatherbee)
2. Re: 64 bit development -- Is mmap() of over 4GB possible on
OS X 10.4/10.5? (William Kucharski)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:59:06 -0700
From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <email@hidden>
Subject: 64 bit development -- Is mmap() of over 4GB possible on
OS X
10.4/10.5?
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Gentlemen,
I have had the following experience:
No where is it made clear why the size of data you can mmap() is
limited in a 64-bit environment (-arch x86_64 or -arch ppc64). For
instance I cannot mmap() more than about 3.5GB on my Intel Xeon
XServe
with 8GB of physical RAM (running 10.5), the same app cannot mmap()
more than about 2GB on my G5 XServe with 8GB of physical RAM
(running
10.4). I can however locally allocate and use an array like char
x[6*1024*1024*1024]; on both and compile and execute without a
problem.
I want to use shared memory with a very large data object that will
have multiple unrelated readers (process wise) and a single
writer. I
will be synchronizing access using flock() when I need to write but
most of the time the data will be read only. Here is some sample
code
I wrote to test the mmap() subsystem --- I am using shm_open()
because
I do not want backing store for this data it will be rebuilt from a
separate data store upon reboot.
Am I somehow misusing mmap() by wanting to have one large logically
contiguous shared memory space to store this data? I can imagine
this
has come up in HPC and database engines before, so I am surprised
that
I cannot find any documents that address it.
Here is some very quickly hacked together sample code and the output
it generates for me on a powerPC G5 XServe with 8GB of RAM.
(I know the actual physical memory doesn't matter except in the
amount
of time you are going to be waiting for pageouts while memset runs)
Try increasing MEMSIZE until it breaks for you and you get
0xffffffffffffffff returned from mmap. BTW - this leaves 10GB of
garbage around in the VM if you run it successfully.
What I ideally want is to map one shared 6GB area, for my purposes
if
I need more virtual memory then I will just increase the physical
memory size as the
XServes are now accepting up to 32GB of RAM.
compiled with "gcc -arch ppc64 -o openmem openmem.c"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#define MEMSIZE ((long)2*1024*1024*1024)
int main (void)
{
int fd1, fd2, fd3, fd4, fd5, err;
char *mem1, *mem2, *mem3, *mem4, *mem5;
printf ("sizeof(void *) = %d\n", sizeof(void *));
printf ("sizeof(int) = %d\n", sizeof(int));
printf ("sizeof(long) = %d\n", sizeof(long));
printf ("memsize = %ld\n", MEMSIZE);
err = shm_unlink ("bank1");
printf ("shm_unlink bank1 = %d\n", err);
err = shm_unlink ("bank2");
printf ("shm_unlink bank2 = %d\n", err);
err = shm_unlink ("bank3");
printf ("shm_unlink bank3 = %d\n", err);
err = shm_unlink ("bank4");
printf ("shm_unlink bank4 = %d\n", err);
err = shm_unlink ("bank5");
printf ("shm_unlink bank5 = %d\n", err);
fd1 = shm_open ("bank1", O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
printf ("fd1 = %d\n", fd1);
fd2 = shm_open ("bank2", O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
printf ("fd2 = %d\n", fd2);
fd3 = shm_open ("bank3", O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
printf ("fd3 = %d\n", fd3);
fd4 = shm_open ("bank4", O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
printf ("fd4 = %d\n", fd4);
fd5 = shm_open ("bank5", O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
printf ("fd5 = %d\n", fd5);
err = ftruncate (fd1, MEMSIZE);
printf ("ftruncate bank1 = %d\n", err);
err = ftruncate (fd2, MEMSIZE);
printf ("ftruncate bank2 = %d\n", err);
err = ftruncate (fd3, MEMSIZE);
printf ("ftruncate bank3 = %d\n", err);
err = ftruncate (fd4, MEMSIZE);
printf ("ftruncate bank4 = %d\n", err);
err = ftruncate (fd5, MEMSIZE);
printf ("ftruncate bank5 = %d\n", err);
mem1 = mmap (NULL, MEMSIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd1,
0);
printf ("mmap bank1 = %p\n", mem1);
mem2 = mmap (NULL, MEMSIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd2,
0);
printf ("mmap bank2 = %p\n", mem2);
mem3 = mmap (NULL, MEMSIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd3,
0);
printf ("mmap bank3 = %p\n", mem3);
mem4 = mmap (NULL, MEMSIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd4,
0);
printf ("mmap bank4 = %p\n", mem4);
mem5 = mmap (NULL, MEMSIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd5,
0);
printf ("mmap bank5 = %p\n", mem5);
memset (mem1, 0xAA, MEMSIZE);
memset (mem2, 0xBB, MEMSIZE);
memset (mem3, 0xCC, MEMSIZE);
memset (mem4, 0xDD, MEMSIZE);
memset (mem5, 0xEE, MEMSIZE);
}
Output:
sizeof(void *) = 8
sizeof(int) = 4
sizeof(long) = 8
memsize = 2147483648
shm_unlink bank1 = 0
shm_unlink bank2 = 0
shm_unlink bank3 = 0
shm_unlink bank4 = 0
shm_unlink bank5 = 0
fd1 = 3
fd2 = 4
fd3 = 5
fd4 = 6
fd5 = 7
ftruncate bank1 = 0
ftruncate bank2 = 0
ftruncate bank3 = 0
ftruncate bank4 = 0
ftruncate bank5 = 0
mmap bank1 = 0x6008000
mmap bank2 = 0x8ff4e000
mmap bank3 = 0x10ff4e000
mmap bank4 = 0x18ff4e000
mmap bank5 = 0x20ff4e000
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:29:14 -0600
From: William Kucharski <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: 64 bit development -- Is mmap() of over 4GB possible on
OS X 10.4/10.5?
To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <email@hidden>
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On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:
Try increasing MEMSIZE until it breaks for you and you get
0xffffffffffffffff returned from mmap. BTW - this leaves 10GB of
garbage around in the VM if you run it successfully.
What is errno set to when this happens?
mmap(2) is defined to return -1 to the caller in case of error.
William Kucharski
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