From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: gnat and heap size
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:36:05 GMT
Date: 2001-09-26T13:36:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9Rks7.5792$ev2.9433@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ee5b646.0109251812.47533415@posting.google.com
In article <5ee5b646.0109251812.47533415@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar
says...
>
>Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message news:<%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com>...
>> By my math, that's probably going to be using at least 800MB. Do you actually
>> have that much RAM in your system? It would have to be one kick'n system to have
>> nearly a gig of contiguous free RAM available on the heap...
>
>
>What an extraordinarily peculiar comment :-)
>
>We are talking about contiguous *virtual* memory, not
>physical memory. This is 2001, not 1965.
Ahh yes, I had fogotten that. Realise that I do mostly RTOS work these days,
where we typically don't have virtual memory even here in 2001. But since he
said "Solaris 7", there definitely would be virtual memory involved.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-26 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 18:29 gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-25 20:46 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 21:15 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 21:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:04 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 13:39 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 14:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:53 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 17:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 18:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 18:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 7:20 ` Martin Dowie
2001-09-26 21:16 ` Pascal Obry
2001-09-27 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 15:25 ` Holographic memory (Was: gnat and heap size) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-09-27 16:26 ` gnat and heap size Dale Pennington
2001-09-27 16:57 ` Darren New
2001-09-27 16:58 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 19:19 ` tmoran
2001-09-26 14:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-27 10:39 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-09-25 22:40 ` David Starner
2001-09-26 2:12 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:36 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-09-26 2:13 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:29 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 23:10 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-26 9:09 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-09-26 13:58 ` The decline of programming civilization (was: gnat and heap size) Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:44 ` gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-26 14:55 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 20:45 ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27 6:12 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-27 18:23 ` erij
2001-09-27 9:02 ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27 13:27 ` Gerald Kasner
2001-09-27 17:48 ` erij
2001-09-27 14:11 ` Peter F. Gath
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