Re: maximum memory limit

[Mark Hahn]

> > Just to make sure I have this correct, an application can call brk
> > to allocate memory from its heap space for upto 1GB, after which
> > it has to switch to using mmap for the rest.  Is this 1GB fixed or
> > will it ever change? (if it does, it might break my application).
> 
> IMHO malloc() should switch to mmap() for the rest :)

that would be great.  but as far as I can tell, there's no good reason
for our mmaped reasons to start at 1G and grow up.  it would be a lot nicer
to start right below the stack and grown down.  (stacks are normally already
limited to an inconsequential few MB..)

regards, mark hahn.