> A user process on a 32 bit system can allocate around 2GB of VM via > mmap > (which is what our malloc uses). The entire user address space is > only 3G. > > You can run several stress programs in parallel but be careful not to > exceed your configured swap space (well, physical memory + swap) or > you will force the kernel to start killing processes. It will probably > choose the memory stressors to kill but still, not a good idea on
Ah I see, I'll watch out for memory usage during high activity and if anything i'll shoot another mail. Thanks Matt