Call for testers: libiberty/physmem.c

[Kaveh R. Ghazi]

 > From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
 > 
 > One of our Linux compute servers is reporting
 > 
 > $ tmp/phys
 > total=7820.195312Mb avail=933.585938Mb
 > 
 > Which is correct, but not necessarily useful (an x86 processor can't 
 > address more then 4G in any one process).
 > R.

The heuristic currently tops out at RAM==1G, more than that doesn't
(shouldn't) affect the algorithm.

On a 16G solaris2 box, my values are expand=100%, heap=128M (== 1G/8).

Try compiling any file with -v and examine the GC heuristic values it
outputs.

		--Kaveh
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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu