viljanen@kreeta.cs.Helsinki.FI (Lea Viljanen UNIX88) (01/06/89)
I have some questions about Minix (ST-version, if that makes any difference)... 1) Why can't mined (nor mg for that matter...) handle large files? 50K is too much, don't know what is the exact limit. It shouldn't be a memory problem, I have a 1M machine and a 360K root file-system. 2) What is the real meaning of (not life, but..) chmem? I know what it does, but I'd like to know if the memory+stack allocated by the cc is normally enough? That's because quite many posted programs seem to have a notice saying that I should chmem the program to some determined value. I had something else in mind too, but I can't recall it now. Anyway, I'd appreciate any answers for those two... """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Lea 'LadyBug' Viljanen ____ University of Helsinki, Finland viljanen@finuha.bitnet \ / . ' Dept. of Computer Science viljanen@cs.helsinki.fi \/ |_ 'Small is beautiful'
evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans) (01/11/89)
In article <685@hydra.cs.Helsinki.FI> viljanen@kreeta.cs.Helsinki.FI (Lea Viljanen UNIX88) writes: >2) What is the real meaning of (not life, but..) chmem? I know what it It is for computers that don't have memory management hardware. The full amount of memory required to run a program has to be allocated in advance (in a practical implementation), and chmem is used to limit it. >1) Why can't mined (nor mg for that matter...) handle large files? Don't you get more by allocating more with chmem? Bruce Evans evans@ditsyda.oz.au -- Bruce Evans evans@ditsyda.oz.au D