On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/23/2010 11:49 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: > > What I mean is will the memory be contiguous in fashion when it is > resident. > > Good question. Not sure. > > Unlike hard drives where fragmentation hurts you, does it hurt you in > memory? Every page access has to go through the VM redirector. Exactly - it makes no difference. The memory subsystem will be taking chunks from ram and pulling them up through the cache heirarchy anyway - nothing uses the ram for operations, and there would be no performance penalty for having fragmented ram. David
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