> > stupid question: are you running 2.3 kernels and have you enabled High
> > Memory Support? I'm able to run 1.0 GB RSS processes:
>
> Yes, I'm running 2.3(.29), with the 4gig high memory support enabled
> (currently only 1gig in the machine, but will be adding another 2 or 3
> soon..)..
if there is 1GB RAM in the system then you should not be surprised that
you can allocate only slightly less than 1GB RAM. The kernel has to
allocate some data structures (which are about a fixed, small percentage
of physical RAM), the rest is available to user-space.
-- mingo
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