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

[Ulf Carlsson <ulfc@bun.falkenberg.se>]

> > 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:-)).

Anyhow, it isn't normal to have every program complaining about OOM at
14 out of 32 megabytes allocated, no matter if you have swap enabled
or not.

- Ulf