From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29957 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 18:02:47 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 24 Feb 2000 18:02:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 20994 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2000 18:02:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 9868 Received: (qmail 20965 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2000 18:02:40 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1000224180235.ZM22037@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:02:35 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200002240856.JAA15828@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Comments: In reply to Sven Wischnowsky "Re: PATCH: useheap (was: Re: PATCH: Improved _mailboxes)" (Feb 24, 9:56am) References: <200002240856.JAA15828@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: useheap (was: Re: PATCH: Improved _mailboxes) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Feb 24, 9:56am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: } Subject: Re: PATCH: useheap (was: Re: PATCH: Improved _mailboxes) } } only 24 MB and little swap space. I haven't really tried ElectricFence } on it but I was rather scared by the manual talking about one or two } pages per memory block... Yes, it can get rather big. Half the pages are virtual memory that is never accessed (unless you have a buffer overrun); I don't recall if Linux's memory model is one of those that doesn't actually allocate virtual pages until you try to write to them ... -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com