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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux CDROM (Was stabilizing Linux)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.095529.18687@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 09:55:29 GMT
- References: <3284@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Aug12.020246.22166@wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Aug12.164546.13304@crd.ge.com>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- In article <1992Aug12.164546.13304@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.020246.22166@wimsey.bc.ca>, bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) writes:
- >| 3.75Gb/process would be great! I am not likely to need that ofcourse, nor will
- >| I likely have a swap partition much greater than 10-20Mb, but fewer limitations
- >| are allways welcome.
- >|
- >| Now if the number of processes are also increased from 64 to say 1024 that would
- >| be great! (yes, I can see running out of 64 processes)
- >
- > I can see running out of 64 processes a lot faster than running out of
- >64MB address space. I certainly am not running that much memory and
- >swap.
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- The things are related: the 64 process maximum will be gone the same day
- the 64MB limit is gone. It will just take a bit of coding on my part,
- so don't expect it tomorrow..
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- Linus
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