Messages in this thread | | | From | Perry Harrington <> | Subject | Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:37:22 -0800 (PST) |
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> > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Memory: 2059720k available (1600k kernel code, 23528k data, 184k init) > > WTF did you put in that kernel?! 1.6MB of code and 23.5MB of data?!?
I asked the same question. David said that for every page in the system there is a 'struct page' handle hanging out. At 180 bytes a piece times 2GB of 8K pages, that's a lot of data (eek, yech).
> > Cheers, > Alex. >
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