From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,124905131f269735 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-26 06:36:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-austin!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <1001442590.557811@news.drenet.dnd.ca> <%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com> <5ee5b646.0109251812.47533415@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: gnat and heap size Message-ID: <9Rks7.5792$ev2.9433@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:36:05 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:36:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13391 Date: 2001-09-26T13:36:05+00:00 List-Id: In article <5ee5b646.0109251812.47533415@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar says... > >Ted Dennison 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com