Re: ANN: VMTester - virtual memory testing utility
Re: ANN: VMTester - virtual memory testing utility
- Subject: Re: ANN: VMTester - virtual memory testing utility
- From: Cameron Hayne <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:10:56 -0400
On 4/5/05 7:23 PM, "Scott Ribe" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Note that VMTester does try to make the allocated memory be active by
>> writing and reading from it periodically.
> Does it write to all of the allocated memory? Memory should become active
> page-by-page, not allocation-by-allocation. So if you allocate 100mb and
> only write to 1mb, the other 99mb will not become active.
VMTester writes to every 10th byte over the whole span of the block of
memory that it allocates. And then it reads those bytes periodically.
--
Cameron Hayne (email@hidden)
Hayne of Tintagel
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