From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 08:03:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A8F16A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 08:03:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua (tigra.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4219F43D49 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 08:03:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from localhost (rocky.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.2]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4R838E4072151; Fri, 27 May 2005 11:03:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: from tigra.ip.net.ua ([82.193.96.10]) by localhost (rocky.ipnet [82.193.96.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 99468-12; Fri, 27 May 2005 11:03:07 +0300 (EEST) Received: from heffalump.ip.net.ua (heffalump.ip.net.ua [82.193.96.213]) by tigra.ip.net.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4R837tp072147 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 May 2005 11:03:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@ip.net.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by heffalump.ip.net.ua (8.13.3/8.13.3) id j4R83TJK005699; Fri, 27 May 2005 11:03:29 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:03:29 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Francisco Reyes Message-ID: <20050527080329.GA5586@ip.net.ua> References: <20050526233707.O5798@zoraida.natserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050526233707.O5798@zoraida.natserv.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ip.net.ua Cc: FreeBSD amd64 List Subject: Re: Memory usage for AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:03:12 -0000 --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+--