Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261277AbUKSHCA (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:02:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261281AbUKSHB0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:01:26 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:52703 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261277AbUKSHBR (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:01:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:01:02 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Bryan Henderson cc: Miklos Szeredi , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 22 >>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 -- Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Am Fassberg, 37077 Göttingen, www.gwdg.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/