From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,124905131f269735 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-26 06:40:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!atlanta1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.futuresouth.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <1001442590.557811@news.drenet.dnd.ca> <%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com> <9oqs5k$jjq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osjpt$a5l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: gnat and heap size Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:39:42 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:39:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13393 Date: 2001-09-26T13:39:42+00:00 List-Id: In article <9osjpt$a5l$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >Must have missed the Solaris 7 part. Sorry. Not too familiar with how that >restricts memory use, but I seem to recall a similar situation quite a while >back in which there was one parameter that could be changed & a system >reboot performed that altered how much memory was available to a process. > >My recollection was that Solaris did not have many memory management >parameters - VMS certainly had considerably more control over process quotas >on all sorts of resources. VMS also had a limit of about 1GB if I remember right. Its memory space was something like 4GB, divided into 4 sections. At least that's what I remember from 12 years ago or so when I was using it. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com