[plug] 2GB swap limit

[Bill Kenworthy]

both 32 bits, never heard of this limit, but that might have been the
cause.  Set that part of the project aside at that point, but will
eventually have to get back to it.

BillK

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 09:42, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > The bad news is most apps dont seem to handle unlimited swap.  i.e., GD
> > dies somewhere about 5g memory usage when given access to 1g ram, 2x1g
> > swaps and 2x2g swap files.
> 
> Is that on a 32-bit machine?  I'm surprised it makes it to 5gb, isn't
> there a 3gb limit on the address space of each process?
> 
> Cameron.
> 
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