From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) Subject: Re: Linux CDROM (Was stabilizing Linux) Date: 14 Aug 1992 03:29:07 GMT
In article <1992Aug13.095529.18687@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.164546.13304@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug12.020246.22166@wimsey.bc.ca>, bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) writes:
>>| 3.75Gb/process would be great! I am not likely to need that ofcourse, nor will
>>| I likely have a swap partition much greater than 10-20Mb, but fewer limitations
>>| are allways welcome.
>>|
>>| Now if the number of processes are also increased from 64 to say 1024 that would
>>| be great! (yes, I can see running out of 64 processes)
>>
>> I can see running out of 64 processes a lot faster than running out of
>>64MB address space. I certainly am not running that much memory and
>>swap.
>
>The things are related: the 64 process maximum will be gone the same day
>the 64MB limit is gone. It will just take a bit of coding on my part,
>so don't expect it tomorrow..
>
> Linus
I don't expect it tomorrow... whenever it gets here will be fine... I only
anticipate requering more than 64 tasks one I get more serial ports & kernel
ethernet support & I move my newsfeed to one of my Linux boxes...
Bill