cvs commit: doc Makefile
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Fri Apr 13 15:58:28 UTC 2007
Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> As I was pointed a few months back, maxdsiz is not in any way related to
> the amount of RAM you have. You can have 256MB of RAM, and it'll also be
> 512MB, it's just the upper limit of the memory a process can allocate.
To be precise, it is the amount of *address space* each process can
allocate for data, which in this context means everything that is not
text or stack: static variables, malloc arenas, mmapped files etc.
DES
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