Re: memory allocation problems

[Hugh Dickins]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> 
> As was pointed out to me in January, another solution for i386 would be to
> fix a maximum stack size and have the mmap() allocations grow downward
> from the "top" of the stack (3GB - max stack size).  I'm not sure why that
> is not currently done.

I'd be interested in the answer to that too.  Typically, the memory
layout has ELF text at the lowest address, starting at 0x08048000 -
which is a curious place to put it, until you realize that if you
place the stack below it, you can use (in a typical small program)
just one page table for stack + text + data (then another for mmaps
and shared libs from 3GB down): two page tables instead of present three.

Hugh