maximum memory limit

Lee Chin (leechin@mail.com)
Tue, 8 Feb 2000 01:59:53 -0500 (EST)


Sorry if this is the wrong list, but what is the maximum virtual memory an
application can malloc in the latest kernel?

Just doing a (for example) "malloc(1024)" in a loop will max out close to
1GB even though I have 4 GB ram on my system.

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