Actually, it's more likely a bad error message.
Dan
On 7/6/01 8:30 PM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gentlemen, I gather that you have not done a lot of work with OS design.
> Actually, while the address space is 2GB, it is unlikely that you really
> could use it. You are limited to the amount of physical memory plus swap
> space, and that is usually further limited by the size of the page tables
> allocated by the system. Since the latter is usually a kernel build time
> (many UNIX) or boot time (e.g., VMS) parameter, you will normally have a
> lower limit - typically 50-100MB or so. In addition, there are a lot of
> other memory bound components, so without more information about the error,
> it is difficult to determine what you actually used up.
>
> This type of error would indicate a memory leak in the IE application -
> something is being allocated, but not freed properly.
>
> on 01.7.6 8:00 PM, Mac Internet Explorer Talk at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> 512MB, and I had almost nothing open at the time. Besides, under OSX you
>>> should essentially never see anything like this, as VM just kicks in.
>>> Each app theoretically has access to 2GB of address space.
>>
>> Well, yes, I am aware how a well-written operating system is supposed to be
>> behave - precisely.
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