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From: "Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: max heap usage of a Linux process
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:09:27 +0100
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Hi,

On 11/13/06, Prasanta Sadhukhan <Prasanta.Sadhukhan@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anybody please tell how can I obtain the max. heap usage of a Linux
> process?
> 

theoretically 3 GB (3/4 of 4gb - which are addressable by 32 bit) on a 32bit machine on a 64bit machine 3/4 of 16exabyte.

cheers,
Markus