As I understand, the input parameter of sendcnts is an array of int, so the amount of data each process can send is limited to MAX_INT (approximately 2G).

What if I want to use MPI_Alltoallv-like MPI routines to send a buffer of data that exceeds 2GB? Does it need to cut the data buffers to smaller sizes? Is there an easy way to do this? The reason I am asking is one of my distributed sort algorithm uses MPI_Alltoallv to distribute data after partitioning; it crashed when I tried to send in each process more than 2GB data.