From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 15 3:12:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4790514D91 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 03:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 12845 invoked by uid 1003); 15 Apr 1999 12:08:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:08:52 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux Message-ID: <19990415120852.A11702@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <3714EFA7.239DEBF5@chen.ml.org> <199904150921.TAA28780@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> <004201be8724$e7b89a40$8cbc2dc1@ibfs.com> <19990415193124.U23745@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990415193124.U23745@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 07:31:24PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 1999-04-15 (19:31), Greg Lehey wrote: > make 2GB available fairly easily. But, in any case, they > claim that NT was limited (with the maxmem parameter) to 1G > of memory, so this aspect of the test was fair. It would have > been more straightforward of them, however, to have simply > remove the other 3G from the system. Is this the maxmem parameter that affects the maximum amount of Virtual Memory (address space) assigned to user processes by the VMM? Usually it's 2GB for applications maximum with the remainder assigned to the kernel-mode portions of NT. (I'm just wondering since in NT4SP3 and NT Server, Enterprise Edition 4, an administrator can move that to a 3/1gig ratio in the favour of user-mode.) Of course, this is probably a non-issue, but I'm just interested, since it would have otherwise seemed logical to physically remove the memory. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message