Re: ANN: VMTester - virtual memory testing utility

FROM : Cameron Hayne
DATE : Wed Apr 06 00:24:58 2005

On 4/5/05 6:08 PM, "Ben Dougall" <<email_removed>> wrote:

> i think it's like this:
> allocating it just ear marks it -- you don't actually, physically get
> the memory when you allocate it. when you make use of it, that's when
> things actually happen. so i think if you were to allocate 100mb of
> memory not a lot happens, apart from you now have the right to use
> 100mb of memory. when and if you use, say just 1mb of that 100mb,
> that's when things actually happen. that's when real memory (1mb) is
> taken over by your app. it allocates on actual access/use -- puts
> allocation off to the last possible moment basically i think.


Maybe you didn't notice that I said:
>> Note that VMTester does try to make the allocated memory be active by
>> writing and reading from it periodically.


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Cameron Hayne (<email_removed>)
Hayne of Tintagel