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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!bhenning
- From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning)
- Subject: Re: Linux CDROM (Was stabilizing Linux)
- Organization: Wimsey
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:29:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.032907.2171@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Aug12.020246.22166@wimsey.bc.ca> <1992Aug12.164546.13304@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug13.095529.18687@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1992Aug13.095529.18687@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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..
- >
- > Linus
-
- I don't expect it tomorrow... whenever it gets here will be fine... I only
- anticipate requering more than 64 tasks one I get more serial ports & kernel
- ethernet support & I move my newsfeed to one of my Linux boxes...
-
- Bill
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