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From: Kito <kito@g.o>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
Cc: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:02:18
Message-Id: C807628C-3A4C-11D9-B27E-000A95A93300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM? by Greg KH
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5 On Nov 19, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Greg KH wrote:
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7 > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:46:20AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
8 >> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:38 -0600, Kito wrote:
9 >>>> Can you think of a nice portable way of doing this test? That would
10 >>>> be
11 >>>> really helpful.
12 >>>
13 >>> Why not a sysctl call? as mentioned above, not all systems have /proc
14 >>
15 >> sysctl requires proc.
16 >
17 > Not true. The sysctl syscall does not require it.
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19 % sysctl hw.memsize
20 hw.memsize: 1073741824
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22 % ls /proc
23 ls: /proc: No such file or directory
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27 > thanks,
28 >
29 > greg k-h
30 >
31 > --
32 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
33 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] what to do when an ebuild needs loads of RAM? Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>