runtime: new allocation strategy for amd64

Do not reserve virtual address space.
Instead, assume it will be there when we need it,
and crash loudly if that assumption is violated.
Reserving the address space gets charged to
ulimit -v, which exceeds commonly set limits.

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-dev/msg/7c477af5f5a8dd2c

R=r, niemeyer
CC=golang-dev
http://codereview.appspot.com/4148045

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/test/run b/test/run
index ec0195253..28d0caa0f 100755
--- a/test/run
+++ b/test/run
@@ -42,9 +42,7 @@ TMP2FILE=/tmp/gotest2-$$-$USER
 
 # don't run the machine out of memory: limit individual processes to 4GB.
 # on thresher, 3GB suffices to run the tests; with 2GB, peano fails.
-# Linux charges reserved but not mapped addresses to ulimit -v
-# so we have to use ulimit -m.
-ulimit -m 4000000
+ulimit -v 4000000
 
 # no core files please
 ulimit -c 0