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Date: Mon,  3 Sep 2007 01:35:14 -0400
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:35:14 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:38:44PM -0400, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> would have to commit just for stacks.  With 2,000 processes, that
> would rise to 32GB just for stacks.

With 4GB RAM, wouldn't you allocate at least that much swap
no matter what?