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Re: [PLUG] BSD total free memory in C ?
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> X-Need-Food: Available for consulting
Like all of us ;-)
Note that your mail client (?) seems to be broken (at least from the
thread point of view).
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:59:22AM -0500, Jeff Weisberg wrote:
> | What would be the BSD way to get the quantity of free memory?
>
> based on experience, but with no actual experimental data
> to back myself up, I would doubt that using total free memory
> to determine the cache size is the optimal cache sizing
> algorithm.
So based on your experience what would be a good algorithm?
About your proposed 'read a value from a config file' (which is already
implemented), what would be a good default value? Is it going to be the
same default value on all systems or do you need ... an algorithm to
determine this value?
Christophe
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L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la même.
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