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sliverstorm
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Many small processes? How many?
4 KB * (many) could be frightening.
jff
on July 19, 2011
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If your system has 32,000 processes and you allocate 4 KB to each of them... that's 128 MB. I'm not crapping my pants at that figure because even the oldest machine in my office, an old Thinkpad, has 2 GB of RAM.
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4 KB * (many) could be frightening.