Re: Largest mallocs opteron vs. 32bit systems

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 06:24:24 +0000, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

> Hello...
> 
> I just did some tests trying to malloc() memory on an opteron and a xeon
> system...
> [...]
> So one 'looses' 500M.
> 
> Feedback welcome,
> Soeren


I just want to mention, that this is kernel 2.4.21 (including quite a
number of redhat patches...) and due to a miscomputation 100M should be
added to every number...

Also when I malloc in smaller blocks (ie. size 1M) I get closer to 3G on a
i386 system (like 29xxM).

Soeren


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