Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:27:11 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc Makefile Message-ID: <86ejmo1ei8.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <67D8C599EEFF49D164C492CC@atuin.in.mat.cc> (Mathieu Arnold's message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:02:08 %2B0200") References: <200704111851.l3BIpMnJ040158@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070411185702.GA97256@abigail.blackend.org> <20070411202758.GE1027@zaphod.nitro.dk> <67D8C599EEFF49D164C492CC@atuin.in.mat.cc>
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Mathieu Arnold <mat@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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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