From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 16:31:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AAB37B420; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0099.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.99] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1709kH-0002Fl-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:31:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC5EE80.1442792A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:30:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kalts@estpak.ee Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ? References: <3CC4C683.F9AEF14E@mindspring.com> <20020423092909.N1721-100000@mail1.hub.org> <20020423184534.GA30212@myhakas.estpak.ee> <3CC5B52B.49A5A719@mindspring.com> <20020423200449.GA30662@myhakas.estpak.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vallo Kallaste wrote: > Hmm, ok, but can we have more than one 1G user process at one time? Yes. I said this before: you can have a nearly arbitrary number of UVA's -- you get one per process, in fact, whether you want it or not. Usually, they don't use up the full available address space, only a fraction of it. > Four 500MB ones and so on? > Somehow I've made such conclusion based on previous information. > Should be so, otherwise I don't understand how swapping will fit > into overall picture. Yes, that's how it works (plus some kernel structures are swappable). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message