Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
9 Dec 1998 20:21:53 GMT

Followup to: <366DCC54.3BA371B9@gmx.de>
By author: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > Total of 14 processors activated (6927.16 BogoMIPS).
>
> Cute :-)
>
> > Memory: 2059720k available (1600k kernel code, 23528k data, 184k init)
>
> But what's this? 23MB kernel data? ^^^^^^
>
> Ciao, ET.
>

Yes; some kernel data structures are proportional in size to main
memory, hence if you have lots of memory the kernel will hog a fair
amount.

-hpa

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