Subject: Re: Question on USE_TOPDOWN_VM kernel config option
To: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/09/2003 03:02:09
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Brian Chase wrote:
> In -current, does the USE_TOPDOWN_VM option cause any significant
> difference in its effect of how the /physical/ memory of a system gets
> allocated (vs how it gets allocated without it?)
Huh? USE_TOPDOWN_VM don't have anything to do with how phsycial memory is
allocated.
> BTW, it's really nice to see that 128MB resource limit for process
> datasize. Oh yeah. :-)
Sometimes it is. Some programs gobble a lot of memory, and previously you
couldn't run them.
Johnny
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