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From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Notes on the *new* FreeBSD V1.1 VM system
Date: 2 Mar 1994 08:02:25 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
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In article <2l0b06$2qi@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>, wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
> 
> Say my default stack limit is 256MB.  Does that mean that I have to
> have 256MB of backing store available to start any new process?  If
> so, will you pay for all my disks from now on?  If not, why not, and
> what happens when a stack grow causes you to run out of memory?

Yep, that's the other case.  But at least this one's not new.

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