Subject: Re: Question on USE_TOPDOWN_VM kernel config option
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/10/2003 20:39:27
On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:22 PM, <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:
> Yes and no. The system needs to allocate less physical memory at 
> startup
> than it did before, and there is no boot-time limit of the max number 
> of
> processes anymore.
>
> Setting MAXDSIZ to 1GB without USE_TOPDOWN_VM would make any system
> run out of memory before it booted, with USE_TOPDOWN_VM it's not
> affected at all.

Any reason that we shouldn't force USE_TOPDOWN_VM at this point in time?
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