If your system has 32,000 processes and you allocate 4 KB to each of them... that's 128 MB. I'm not crapping my pants at that figure because even the oldest mac

If your system has 32,000 processes and you allocate 4 KB to each of them... that's 128 MB. I'm not crapping my pants at that figure because even the oldest machine in my office, an old Thinkpad, has 2 GB of RAM.