Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-49,: Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

# Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

Perry Harrington (pedward@sun4.apsoft.com)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:37:22 -0800 (PST)

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>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > Memory: 2059720k available (1600k kernel code, 23528k data, 184k init)
>
> WTF did you put in that kernel?! 1.6MB of code and 23.5MB of data?!?

I asked the same question. David said that for every page in the system there is
a 'struct page' handle hanging out. At 180 bytes a piece times 2GB of 8K pages,
that's a lot of data (eek, yech).

>
> Cheers,
> Alex.
>

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