Re: Proposed new sysctl MIB nodes
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:55:02 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.bsd.api.general |
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| Organization | Wasabi Systems, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:47:52AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > I subscribed late, so missed the discussion about this other than > the snippet Warner forwarded to [email protected] It's not my > intend to trigger a rerun of the discussion, but what I'm wondering > about is what exactly the value is of knowing the amount of memory > physically installed in the machine given the fact that there are > process limits and the process is running in a multi-user, multi- > process environment? GCC's garbage-collecting memory allocator uses this information, along with rlimits (and sometimes raising rlimits) to tune itself. The aim is to avoid making the machine thrash. I am but the messenger ... the application is already using HW_PHYSMEM, which loses on systems with >=4G of RAM. I just want to fix it for those kinds of systems. -- -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The BSD APIs Discussion Mailing List To unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe bsd-api-discuss" to majordomo-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]