On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Matthew Hixson wrote:
> > it's si_meminfo(), it's a bit inefficient when working on gobs of RAM. We
>
> I would not refer to my measley 64MB as "gobs." Should it only be
> happening with hundreds of megs of RAM or is 64 enough to do it? And what
> sort of an effect would this have on a heavily loaded dual PII 350 or 400
> with about 256 MB? I'm suspecting not a whole lot. Is that correct?
yep 64MB is enough to trigger it. I can definitely see it on a 128M PII.
it's even more visible with 512M. The sum of these costs is i think quite
insignificant, but it's very visible in xosview.
-- mingo
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