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[Tim Cutts]

On 30 Mar 2004, at 22:59, Dan Bolser wrote:

> Allocated 3083945984 bytes
> That's 2941.08 MB.
>
>> From my xeon (Mem:4124724k av, Swap:2040244k av)
>
> Hmmmm.....
>
> What does it mean?

You're getting as much memory as we'd expect.  The kernel reserves 1 GB 
of the per-process address space for its own purposes, on X86 machines, 
so your program is left with 3GB.  Ish.

Tim

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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK