Re: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/)

David Schwartz (davids@wiznet.net)
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:45:46 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Systemkennung Linux wrote:

> By default there is a resource limit of 8mb stack.
>
> Ralf

Okay, so we reserve 8Mb of virtual memory per process? A
reasonable Linux system might have 50 processes running, so you just
upped the minimum required virtual memory for a usable Linux system by
50*8Mb ~= 400Mb. Nice work.

Ds