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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 214.40-0.3%1:38 PM EST

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To: bruce rogers who wrote (27078)2/1/2001 10:49:27 AM
From: TechieGuy-altRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
Those numbers add up to a lot less than the 256 Megs the guy said the system had

I don't quite understand that statement. That is total system ram. If what you say is correct (that the entire system ram is used to cache accesses from disk and available after a program exists), then after the first compile, if one does a "free", one will not see any system ram free.

I'll do two back to back kernel compiles and put this issue to rest.

TG
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