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From: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Largest mallocs opteron vs. 32bit systems
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:06:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.04.28.06.06.19.311999@nn7.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1083047064.3158.2.camel@localhost

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



      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-28  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-27  6:24 Largest mallocs opteron vs. 32bit systems Soeren Sonnenburg
2004-04-28  6:06 ` Soeren Sonnenburg [this message]

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