On 4 Dec 2018, at 13:00, Gergely Buday <buday.gerg...@uni-eszterhazy.hu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> https://polyml.inf.ed.ac.narkive.com/c53BJE4q/run-out-of-store-interrupting-
> threads
> 
> says that setting --maxheap with polyml can fix this problem.
> 
> Does this memory allocation necessarily mean _physical_ memory allocation or
> the operating system can use swap space to have the necessary memory?

Crudely, you can think of this as the maximum amount Poly/ML will malloc, so
no, this is not physical memory allocation, this is just plain old virtual
memory allocation that can be paged in/out by the operating system.

James

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