On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 06:53:06PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> 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.

OK ok, maybe it's time for an undeadly article? ;)

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