On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Tobias Ulmer <tobi...@tmux.org> wrote: > Let's make this simple, on i386 you have 1G per process. Adding all the > numbers up, you have to stay below this limit.
That's quite an oversimplification. For starters, we're talking about shm, which doesn't count against your 1GB. The stack doesn't count. Libraries don't count. File backed mmap doesn't count. In fact, the set of numbers that must add up to less than 1GB only contains one number.