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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:59:11 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> 
> actually it is really max virtual memory.. but from the user point of
> view, user is supposed to care about the virtual memory he can manage,
> not about what the kernel will do with the rest. So if the user wants
> 3GB of virtual memory available to each task he will select 3GB. I
> really don't mind if you want to change it from the kernel point of
> view, but given it's the user who's supposed to compile it, also the
> current patch looks good enough to me.
> 


Oh, right... if so he simply has the 05G option mislabelled... it should 
be 3.5G

	-hpa


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