Greg Haerr writes:
>
>
> : > What exactly is being gained by making this modification? The stack
> : > is fixed size in both cases. Is it just that we currently pre-reserve the
>maximum
> : > combined heap/stack now, and in the future wouldn't require the heap size
> : > to be known?
> : >
> :
> : Thats it exactly. Currently even the samllest process reserves 32K for its
> : combined heap/stack, so we very quickly run out of memory. If we can start
> : processes with very little reserved heap, many of them hardly expand it at
> : all, and we can run many more processes at the same time.
> :
>
> Then it's probably well worth doing... Remind me, does ELKS support
> swapping?
>
No swapping yet.
Al
