Script started on Mon Feb 15 01:39:59 2010
wwgong@sf06:~/cs644/hw1$ Size to be malloced is: 8448MB
Malloc successfully!
pmap 19174
19174:   ./test 8448
0000000000400000      4K r-x--  /courses/cs644/s10/eoneil/wwgong/hw1/test	### code ###
0000000000600000      4K r----  /courses/cs644/s10/eoneil/wwgong/hw1/test
0000000000601000      4K rw---  /courses/cs644/s10/eoneil/wwgong/hw1/test	### data ###
00007febac88c000 8650756K rw---    [ anon ]					### heap ### <-- here is the malloced memeory 8448MB
00007fedbc88d000   1444K r-x--  /lib/libc-2.8.90.so				### C lib DLL code ###
00007fedbc9f6000   2044K -----  /lib/libc-2.8.90.so
00007fedbcbf5000     16K r----  /lib/libc-2.8.90.so
00007fedbcbf9000      4K rw---  /lib/libc-2.8.90.so				### C lib DLL data ###
00007fedbcbfa000     20K rw---    [ anon ]
00007fedbcbff000    124K r-x--  /lib/ld-2.8.90.so				### DLL loader lib code ###
00007fedbce10000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
00007fedbce19000     16K rw---    [ anon ]
00007fedbce1d000      4K r----  /lib/ld-2.8.90.so
00007fedbce1e000      4K rw---  /lib/ld-2.8.90.so				### DLL loader data ###
00007fffc4e09000     84K rw---    [ stack ]					### stack ###
00007fffc4ffe000      4K r-x--    [ anon ]
ffffffffff600000      4K r-x--    [ anon ]	
 total          8654544K
wwgong@sf06:~/cs644/hw1$ exit
exit

Script done on Mon Feb 15 01:40:42 2010


The max size of contiguous memory I can malloced is 8448MB, and it's displayed in the heap section above.