On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:54:23 -0500 (EST) >> From: Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> >> >> increase the hard limit on i386 max data size to 2GB-1. This will allow >> memory hungry processes to potentially use more RAM if you increase data >> limits appropriately. > > I really think that -1 is odd. Where would those potential overflows be?
Anyone who stores the limit in a signed int (or long). Do I know of any such software? No. Am I willing to risk the possibility of such existing to squeeze out a few more bytes? No. I will happily set it to straight 2GB, or even higher if we don't care about possible trouble, so long as everybody promises not to complain if an issue is found. :)
