Sorry for the mistake, although otherwise clear from the context: 16GB total is correct as there are 4GB per cpu. francesco
--- Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:39:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Total vs per-cpu memory > To: debian64 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This question is related to problems in running a docking computation. With > big > cases, RAM proves insufficient, resulting in immediate "segmentation fault", > so > that "top" cannot inform. Though, from the code it is clear that memory is > insufficient to rotate the object in a non-parallelized part of the program. > Smaller objects do not give problems. > > My question is: with Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE, two dual opterons and 1GB RAM > per > cpu (amd64 etch), are the 16GB available to the single cpu involved in the > computation, or are 4GB available? > > Memory was set with shmmax: > > kernel.shmmax = 16000000000 > kernel.shmall = 16000000000 > > sysctl -p > > Thanks > francesco pietra > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
