Re: 16 Mb limit - possibly expanded in future?

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

User spaces have a max size of 16mb. That is one I cannot understand. You
would have thought IBM would have teraspace enabled user spaces years ago.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Wintermute, Sharon <
Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When you need over 16mb memory what about using a user space?  That works
> well.
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> Sharon Wintermute
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:09 AM
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> What kinds of RPG applications need more than 16mb memory?  As far as I can
> recall, I've never run up against that limit.  So it just makes me curious.
>  What about using stream files instead of addressable memory?
>
> -Nathan
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Åke Olsson <ake.olsson@xxxxxx>
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> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 1:13:20 AM
> Subject: 16 Mb limit - possibly expanded in future?
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> With the new version of Mq the maximum message size is 100 mb.
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> However - even with the highly appreciated extension of maximum variable
> size in RPG - the maximum size in RPGLE is 16mb. Even the %ALLOC statement
> signals 16 meg as the maximum size it can allocate to a pointer.
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> Is it likely that IBM will extend the options beyond the 16mb limit in a
> coming release?
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> Is there any work-around available?
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> Åke H Olsson
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