On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > > char *p = malloc(amountK*1024);
> > > > printf("%08lu 0x%lx\n",count++,(unsigned long)p);
> > > >
...
> Of course we should all be able to do this. What's interesting, though,
> is that test programs that don't seem to be significantly different are
> giving different results... Is it the program? is it the system?
> Is it something else? We won't track that down without exchanging the test
> code.
given the same amt of 512MB of memory...
you will get different results because: ( my guess )
- swap space usage
- different libs
- different kernels
- different gcc
- different disk format ( stuff read back into memory )
- different motherboard ( bios, if it happens to be doing upper
memory management )
- different blah
c ya
alvin
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