From: sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Question about Sergey's heap change
8 Apr 1998 13:29:41 -0700
Message-ID: <01BD634C.4AE81530.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "'Ian Lance Taylor'" <ian AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On a traditional Unix system, making this change would mean that every
> process would require 128 MB in the swap file, and your system would
> rapidly run out of swap space.  I don't know how the Windows
> equivalent of a swap file works, so I don't know whether there would
> be any equivalent problem.
> 

Windows is not so lame :-) Reserved (but not committed) memory doesn't requires backing storage.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia