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Re: HW requirements
- From: Jim Kingdon <kingdon at panix dot com>
- To: mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu
- Cc: ejessen at adelphia dot net, xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:19:37 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: HW requirements
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401110232110.25159-100000@leon.phy.cmich.edu>
> That said, it is hard for me to "feel the pain" when it comes to
> memory crunches, as the machine I use for development has 1 giga_,
Just look at how much memory is shown for the xconq process in "ps".
Granted, you have to bother to check....
> I could lie to the Linux kernel about how much memory I have by giving
> it a mem=64 argument from the boot loader or something....
I suppose this would the best way of getting an idea of how badly
paging affects xconq's performance. I suppose one could try to have
some other process allocate a bunch of memory and keep accessing it
(which I suppose in some ways better resembles many real-world
situations), but the mem=64 thing is simpler.