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Re: Alpha Linux process and swap size limits?

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On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 10:08:52AM +0000, John Connett wrote:
> Are there any hard upper limits imposed on process size or swap size?
> If so, what are they?

/*
 * We have a 42-bit user address space: 4TB user VM...
 */
#define TASK_SIZE (0x40000000000UL)

This was the hardware limit on ev4 and ev5 chips. I think ev6
may support more, but the kernel doesn't allow it.

r~

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