malloc(), virtual memory

[Chris Torek]

The 4.2 malloc rounds each request up to the nearest power of two
(sounds space inefficient [and is], but very time efficient; see
Korn's paper in Proceedings Winter '85 Usenix).  Since as distributed
4.2 has a per-process VM limit of 6M, you cannot allocate more than
4M with malloc.  (Of course if you raise the VM limits you can get
as much space as you like, provided you have lots of paging space.)
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