Mathieu Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As I was pointed a few months back, maxdsiz is not in any way related to
> the amount of RAM you have. You can have 256MB of RAM, and it'll also be
> 512MB, it's just the upper limit of the memory a process can allocate.

To be precise, it is the amount of *address space* each process can
allocate for data, which in this context means everything that is not
text or stack: static variables, malloc arenas, mmapped files etc.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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