Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:03:29 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD amd64 List <freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Memory usage for AMD64 Message-ID: <20050527080329.GA5586@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20050526233707.O5798@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20050526233707.O5798@zoraida.natserv.net>
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--mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:44:48PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Is the memory usage on AMD64 comparable to i386? >=20 > A current i386 machine that I plan to replace is using less than 128MB of= =20 > RAM out of the 256MB installed. The swap is less than 500K. The only=20 > processes are SSH, postfix and samba. >=20 > Will an AMD64 setup be in the same memory usage range? Under 128MB. >=20 > I am planning on getting 256MB anyways, but want to make sure that AMD64= =20 > doesn't have a bigger memory footprint for the OS and that apps don't use= =20 > significantly more memory when compiled under AMD64. >=20 I'd estimate it's 1.5-2 times more on AMD64 than on i386. At least simple tesing of binary sizes and memory sizes of simple progs shows the difference in this range. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCltRRqRfpzJluFF4RAvhxAJ9zFxDr+V7SDY9z8tWrQQrJISqXnwCfaOSL K57CKjZWhKplCJkBXUBbTuk= =Q3+p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--
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