max memory allocation

crschmid@uiuc.edu crschmid@uiuc.edu
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 22:02:57 -0500


On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:18:18PM -0700, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Could anybody on non-Linux platforms run this and tell Avva and I the
> output?
> 
> We're hoping to avoid fragmenting objects, if we can get a large,
> contiguous region from libc.
> 
> Let us know your platform in your email.  (BSD, OSX, etc...)

uname: SunOS
gcc: 2.95.2

max alloc = 3911 M

Which is all the memory there is free on the machine (it was fun to 
watch it suck up all the swap space on the machine, though).

-- 
Christopher Schmidt