Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:13:56 -0400 From: Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, lists@eitanadler.com Subject: Re: Help porting Linux app - getting Free Memory and Real Memory Message-ID: <5155A1A4.6080801@rodperson.com> In-Reply-To: <44haju2tgk.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <5156316F.9050202@rodperson.com> <20130329032845.GG81066@server.rulingia.com> <44li962xmp.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <51559451.9050708@rodperson.com> <44haju2tgk.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On 03/29/13 10:04, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > I would recommend removing the check completely. The upstream author > should do this for the Linux version as well; it really doesn't make > sense in a system that supports virtual memory. If you decide to > support it anyway to make some kind of performance guarantees, you > probably should check against all of user memory; "free" memory is by > definition being underutilized. Well, being that I received this suggestion from you and Eitan; this is probably the way to go. I'll contact the upstream author and see if he has a better explanation as why he does this. There is one other section that uses this check also, but I have not seen it raise a warning on my testing of the app. Thank you guys. Rod
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