What is meant by "significcantly less than the address space limit"?

From: jreed@appliedtheory.com
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 11:49:13 EDT


On Tru64 v5.1a systems with 8GB memory running internet servers and oracle
database, I'm trying to increase various memory parameters, going thru
tuning docs, on both:
        [max_]per_proc_stack_size
and [max_]per_proc_data_size

the documentation says:
  "Choose values that are significantly less than the address space limit"

What do they mean by "significantly less"?? Half of it? 3/4 of it? That's
a very relative sort of statement.

                                Defaults Recommended
                                                        (for internet server)
max_per_proc_stack_size = 33,554,432 bytes
per_proc_stack_size = 8,388,608 bytes
max_per_proc_data_size = 1GB 10GB
per_proc_data_size = 134,217,728 bytes
[max_]per_proc_address_space = 4GB 10GB

How can max_per_proc_data_size be recommended at 10GB, yet still
"significantly less than" max_per_proc_address_space" which is also
recommended to be set to 10GB??????????????

Huge TIA for clarification!

-- 
Judith Reed
jreed@appliedtheory.com
Judith.Reed@ClearBlue.com
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