Hi
I have a machine with 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap area and it is a 32-bit
machine.
For fun, I tried to allocate memory dynamically by using malloc in a loop
till there is
no memory avilable. I ended up allocating 2 GB memory. My inference is,
total memory
allocated can be equal to size of RAM + size of SWAP at max.
Maybe after reading my article here
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html,
you can find out the answer by your own.
regards,
Mulyadi
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