Re: Memory limitations in Linux.

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 18:41:06 EST


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>about 3GB (you can move it closer to 4GB if you want -- but that may
>harm performance).

I clarify the "may". If your working set (basically the amount of cache
you need) is very low (for example lower than 500mbytes), then you can
raise the per-process RAM limit to 3.5 giga without any performance
change.

Andrea

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