On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +0300, Heikki Tuuri wrote:
>
> In a 32-bit Linux, modern kernels can be configured to have up to 3.5 GB of
> user memory space, but unfortunately the glibc does not allow creation of
> pthreads if more than 2 GB of user memory is allocated, which makes the
> remaining 1.5 GB useless.
Useless to the application, but it still is used as a disk cache.
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