On 18 Mar 2000, Aaron Denney wrote:
>On the linux-kernel mailing list, dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu wrote:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 257788 98764 159024 19400 37708 32264
> -/+ buffers/cache: 28792 228996
> Swap: 642016 2200 639816
>> So malloc() returns success when I ask for an 800 megabyte array on a
>> machine with only ~640 megabytes of free virtual memory.
>
>639816 + 228996 = 868812 = 848 Mb
Yeah, I was adding 159024 instead, which is obviously wrong.
Dave
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