allocation of memory to a program

From: mohi <mohangupta13@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:07:01 -0700 (PDT)

hello everyone
can anyone please tell we how the os kernel determines the size of
memory to be allocated
to a program while it is sheduled, here i mean how it determines the
size of the heap and the stack memory to be allocated to it .
all help is appreciated
moahn
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