Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: top down vm available for use on i386 platform, for development on others
To: None <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/21/2003 11:48:32
In article <20030220174151.A22733@noc.untraceable.net> you write:
>where [1] is the area reserved for heap growth and [2] is the area
>reserved for mmap()ed allocations.  now it looks like this:
[...]
>and as you can plainly, see, there is only one area now, [3], into
>which either of them can grow.  this means (or will mean, ultimately),
>that your heap can grow larger, or you can mmap() larger objects.

Hurrah!  This is excellent news for ports with small amounts of VM, like
acorn26.  I really must get around to swapping desks so I've got room to get
an acorn26 machine running again...

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/acorn26           <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/acorn26/>