Nodejs not allowing buffer size greater than 1GB on 64-bit architecture

[ivish]

From the documentation:
new Buffer(size)
'size' must be less than 1,073,741,824 bytes (1 GB) on 32-bit architectures or 2,147,483,648 bytes (2 GB) on 64-bit architectures. Otherwise, a RangeError is thrown.

[mscdex]

The documentation is correct. Are you asking for the rationale or ?

[ivish]

If the doc is correct. Why it's not working when I am trying to allocate more than 1GB. I get RangeError.

[mscdex]

What version of node are you trying with? Is it a 64-bit executable? What platform are you on?

FWIW creating a >1GB buffer works for me on Linux with 64-bit node v4.2.3 and v5.3.0.

[ivish]

Okay, thanks.. I was testing that on aws ec2 with node v4.2.3. And I got why it wasn't working. My instance was having just 1GB memory.. So.. Sorry, I didn't notice that.