kernel memory tunables
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jan 18 09:05:55 PST 2006
Michael Barnett wrote:
> I am trying to figure out which system tunables determine memory
> resource usage by the amount of available physical memory in the box so
> i can hard code sane values on a system with a lot of memory.
If the machine is properly configured, getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, ...) is a
reasonable starting place. The amount of memory available to an individual
process may well be less than the total amount of RAM installed, especially on
32-bit machines using PAE to have more than 4GB of RAM.
Otherwise, consider using the sysctl interface to look at hw.usermem...
--
-Chuck
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