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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Date: 28 Aug 91 10:56:19 GMT
Local: Wed 28 Aug 1991 11:56
Subject: Re: What would you like to see most in minix?
In article <1991Aug27.143432.10...@ukpoit.co.uk> a...@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes: I'm afraid that is 64 tasks max (and one is used as swapper), no matter >In article <1991Aug26.110602.19...@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes: >>yet) and segmentation. It's the segmentation that makes it REALLY 386 >>dependent (every task has a 64Mb segment for code & data - max 64 tasks >>in 4Gb. Anybody who needs more than 64Mb/task - tough cookies). >Is that max 64 64Mb tasks or max 64 tasks no matter what their size? how small they should be. Fragmentation is evil - this is how it was handled. As the current opinion seems to be that 64 Mb is more than enough, but 64 tasks might be a little crowded, I'll probably change the limits be easily changed (to 32Mb/128 tasks for example) with just a recompilation of the kernel. I don't want to be on the machine when someone is spawning >64 processes, though :-) Linus You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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