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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:30:08 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        kalts@estpak.ee
Cc:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ?
Message-ID:  <3CC5EE80.1442792A@mindspring.com>
References:  <3CC4C683.F9AEF14E@mindspring.com> <20020423092909.N1721-100000@mail1.hub.org> <20020423184534.GA30212@myhakas.estpak.ee> <3CC5B52B.49A5A719@mindspring.com> <20020423200449.GA30662@myhakas.estpak.ee>

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Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> Hmm, ok, but can we have more than one 1G user process at one time?

Yes.  I said this before: you can have a nearly arbitrary number
of UVA's -- you get one per process, in fact, whether you want it
or not.  Usually, they don't use up the full available address
space, only a fraction of it.

> Four 500MB ones and so on?
> Somehow I've made such conclusion based on previous information.
> Should be so, otherwise I don't understand how swapping will fit
> into overall picture.

Yes, that's how it works (plus some kernel structures are swappable).

-- Terry

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