Re: [Firebird-devel] FB 2.1 64bit and memory usage ??

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 20:41, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> > Could the limit be increased to 256K and beyond; for 32Bit?
>
> Yes, it could. The question is who will be responsible for the too large
> values (> 2GB in total). Should we adjust the specified size to some
> hardcoded limit before allocating memory or rely on the OS kernel and
> allocate as much as allowed (and perhaps write to firebird.log that we
> couldn't do better).

I do not like an idea of allocating as much memory as possible for cash. It's 
highly possible (or even unavoidable) that after it we will need some memory 
for other purporses. And we get in OOM case, which is purely handled in 
current codebase.