Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-19T07:02:00Z

>>but I
>>think usually you have lot's of virtual memory (4Gbyte per process),
>>so killing off processes to get more of it makes no sense.
>
>I think it's fair to say you have 4G of virtual address space per process,
>but try to store 4G of information per process in it, and you will
>probably find you can't. What's essentially scarce is swap space. Killing
>off processes frees up swap space.

3G in the default case, because there's 1G for kernel space.

Jan Engelhardt
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