From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 3:27: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7D037B400 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 03:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 373753FC58; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:27:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:27:02 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez To: Terry Lambert Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: allocating memory Message-ID: <20020606122702.A81113@energyhq.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <3CFEEB99.AEDC5DB9@math.missouri.edu> <3CFF2780.FAD81226@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CFF2780.FAD81226@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:12:32AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:12:32AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Why doesn't malloc work to get all the memory it can? I don't know; > you would have to petition PHK for an answer as to why, since he is I honestly doubt it's a problem in phkmalloc :) > As for topping out at ~2.5G: yes: that's what's expected. If you > really need more memory than that, you will need to drop ~US$10K > on a 64 bit Itanium machine, and petition Peter Wemm for the correct > dead chicken to wave over the thing. Just out of curiosity, why to you advocate the Itanium so much? It's, by far, the worst 64bit arch I've ever seen. Maybe in 3 years or so it will be used to serious work, until then, you're much better off with a POWER4= =20 or Sparc box, although newer Sun hardware seems to be pretty disappointing in the engineering department, so go IBM :) Or he could go the PAE way, and get an x86 box with 8 or 16GB of memory. However, I don't know how good the support for that in FreeBSD is. Cheers, --=20 Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8/zj1nLctrNyFFPERApisAJ4kHWUw4E6CAd/qBSH8Et40yf2OkwCgiTL0 YmrRRNWb+zXqC60WsSOWsyQ= =jYth -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message