Re: R5000 Unused memory (was: R4000SC...)

[Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 01:45:44PM +0200, Ulf Carlsson wrote:
> ulfc@dione:~$ ./test
> failed to allocate 512 bytes (6307840 bytes already allocated)
> spinning ...

that's pretty normal for a 2.1 kernel, when running without swap.
I've tried it on a 64MB P5 system and test was able to get about 7MB
memory. With swap enabled I had to stop test to avoid running out of 
swap space (which wasn't desired at that time:-)).

Thomas.

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