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Re: Call for testers: libiberty/physmem.c
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: Mike Stump <mstump at apple dot com>
- Cc: Gerhard Tonn <GerhardTonn at gammatau dot de>,"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:18:09 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Call for testers: libiberty/physmem.c
Hi,
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Mike Stump wrote:
> >>> total=496.429688Mb avail=8.648438Mb
> >
> > It's on s390-ibm-linux, the values look pretty good.
>
> Hum, I'd expect more than 8 available. If you like it, you like it...
> But, do you like it?
That's on linux, and there this number is based on MemFree, which is
excluding buffers and cache. The actual number of free bytes is much
higher (therefore we should never do anything based on _that_ avail
number).
Ciao,
Michael.