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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:05:52 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: porting an app that checks /proc/meminfo
Message-ID:  <200601271505.54307.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060127133817.GA89816@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
References:  <20060124172317.GF72149@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <20060127105313.GD1141@galgenberg.net> <20060127133817.GA89816@iib.unsam.edu.ar>

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On Friday 27 January 2006 13:38, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> +----[ Ulrich Spoerlein <q@galgenberg.net> (27.Jan.2006 07:53):

> So I suppose (but I'm not positive on this) that muscle is
> making decisions based on the size of the dataset it has
> been given, and it needs to have some idea of the available
> memory. Perhaps it will follow different strategies ...  use
> different data structures ...

The concept of Free memory simply doesn't translate from Linux to FreeBSD.

However much you have, it gets used, and the figure usually levels-off at 
about 1% of total physical memory.




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