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- From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
- Subject: RePHRASE: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?
- Organization: University of Western Ont, London
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:03:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.113540.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
- > Just curious about memory demands for alpha. I'm running a VAX 4500
- > with 128 MB memory. Of that, SHO MEM tells me "38393 pages are permanently
- > allocated to VMS". How big is VMS on an alpha system? (Perhaps someone with
- > an alpha could post the last line from SHO MEM, though it might be misleading
- > if there is a lot of dbugging code still in place. Perhaps someone inside
- > DEC has a non-debugging system they could use.) Is there a rule of thumb for
- > typical programs ("alpha memory needs"/"vax memory needs" ~= "constant")?
- > Does a typical user (VAXC or FORTRAN) program require more or less memory on
- > an alpha system?
-
- REPHRASE: It has (already) been pointed out to me that small
- systems may not take as much memory; I suspect my installed
- images are largely responsible for the number I'm seeing here.
-
- The generic question stands, however. Does the memory requirement
- for an alpha system map 1:1 to that of a comparable VMS system?
- (Probably not.) What ratio should we expect, roughly?
-
- Thanks again. b.
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