"Tim Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Thanks for putting 4 gigs of ram in your machine. How about I let you use 2 > of 'em > while I underutilize the other 2 gigs?" > > Sounds silly, IMHO. Well, for a lot of scenarios, it's going to be the 2GB limit on system space that is more of an issue. It's 2GB per process for user space, whereas your whole filesystem cache, for example, is likely to have to fit into that 2GB system space. Having said that, tweaking the limit to 3GB, say, is a bit like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. DEC was doing much the same with big iron VAX machines in '93. If you need that much space today, just use a 64-bit system and get over it, unless you really are locked in. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
