file size limits

From: Borislav Kovacevic <boris -8 at 8- spider.irb.hr>
Subject: file size limits
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:44:54 -0400 (EDT)

 Hi CCLers,
 My question is: why are total size of temporary files in Gussian (rwf) and
 in Molpro limited to max. 16 Gb under the Linux operating sistem.
 I know that in 32 bit operating system maximum file size is 2GB.
 In Gaussian I can split rwf files but 8 (16GB) is maximum number of
 them. Why?
 In new version of Linux (kernel 2.4) this 2 Gb problem is solved, i.e. I
 can have a file larger than 2 Gb. I tried with Molpro and sucessfully
 wrote file larger than 2 Gb, but it seems that there is a 16 Gb limit
 anyway.
 Why this limit exists and is there any way to change it?
              Thanks very much!
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