using mmap on large (> 2 Gig) files

["Martin v. Löwis"]

myeates at jpl.nasa.gov schrieb:
> Anyone ever done this? It looks like Python2.4 won't take a length arg
>> 2 Gig since its not seen as an int. 

What architecture are you on? On a 32-bit architecture, it's likely
impossible to map in 2GiB, anyway (since it likely won't fit into the
available address space).

On a 64-bit architecture, this is a known limitation of Python 2.4:
you can't have containers with more than 2Gi items. This limitation
was removed in Python 2.5, so I recommend to upgrade. Notice that
the code has seen little testing, due to lack of proper hardware,
so I shall suggest that you review the mmap code first before using
it (or just test it out and report bugs as you find them).

Regards,
Martin