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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:52:59
Message-Id: 20041119165232.GA19521@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM? by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:46:20AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:38 -0600, Kito wrote:
3 > > > Can you think of a nice portable way of doing this test? That would be
4 > > > really helpful.
5 > >
6 > > Why not a sysctl call? as mentioned above, not all systems have /proc
7 >
8 > sysctl requires proc.
9
10 Not true. The sysctl syscall does not require it.
11
12 thanks,
13
14 greg k-h
15
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