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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:49:00 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] killing processes
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On Thu Sep 15 11:40:59 EDT 2005, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> ...
> Meant to be shared, by lots of folks, hence that ' ... big boys' comment 
> in the startup code, reserving more kernel memory since there would be 
> more users on a cpu than on a terminal.
> 
> life has changed.
> 
> ron

Actually, that code RESTRICTS the amount of kernel memory on a machine
that has lots of physical memory if it is being used as a cpu server.

--jim