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Re: linux & processes
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 11:51:50PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote:
[...]
> So you both are right. Uri is right because you can have much more
> than 100 processes on your box, and you are right because you'd be
> hosed if you have 100 of them running at the same time.
>
Unless I'm mistaken, Linux requires for each process 8Kb of physical memory
for kernel stack and process structure (at least on x86), and some more for
page tables (depending on process virtual memory size?). This is physical
memory regardless to process doing anything or sleeping.