Re: 2GB malloc impossible ?

mike burrell (mikpos@mikpos.dyndns.org)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:31:36 -0600 (CST)


On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

| If you're going to allocate your entire 2G of ram as a program data
| area, where do you expect the program to live - or the kernel itself,
| come to that?
|
| I would suspect that's the space occupied by the kernel image and
| whatever programs you're running at the time...

He ran out after 1.3GB. I haven't seen many 700MB kernels floating around
lately.

m i k e b u r r e l l
mikpos@home.com
http://mikpos.dyndns.org

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