Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:01:02 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace |
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>>but I >>think usually you have lot's of virtual memory (4Gbyte per process), >>so killing off processes to get more of it makes no sense. > >I think it's fair to say you have 4G of virtual address space per process, >but try to store 4G of information per process in it, and you will >probably find you can't. What's essentially scarce is swap space. Killing >off processes frees up swap space.
3G in the default case, because there's 1G for kernel space.
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