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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:47:11 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Seamonkey

In <47FB7DCC.70809@ucsd.edu>, on 04/16/08
at 04:17 PM, Sandy said:

Hi,

>I don't understand what "linear address space is,"

Linear address space is the set of addresses that a program can utilize.
In a 32-bit OS like eCS/OS2 the maximal linear address space available to
an application is 4GB. For various reasons, the usable address space will
be less. Some of the address space will reserved for the kernel; some may
be reserved by video hardware; some may be unavailable because the kernel
simply does not make is available (i.e. VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT). In addition
not all applications are capable of using the all of the address space
that may be available. For example, Peter's enhanced Mozilla app builds
can use more of the available address space than the traditional builds.

>and if that is the
>problem, is there anything I can do about it?

First you need to be sure this is the problem. After this, you need to
tune your system to maximize the available address and maximize the use of
the available address space while minimizing negative side-effects.
Tuning is always a balancing act.

Steven

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