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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: 2001-09-25 16:53:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnat and heap size Date: 25 Sep 2001 22:40:01 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9or141$9ic2@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <1001442590.557811@news.drenet.dnd.ca> <%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e53d2.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13375 Date: 2001-09-25T22:40:01+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:46:51 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote: > 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... Why would it have to be contiguous? If I understand virtual memory right, on almost any modern system, it'd just have to be a contiguous set of virtual pages, which could then be placed individually throughout real memory and swap space whereever. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"