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Re: Total vs per-cpu memory



On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 07:39 -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> This question is related to problems in running a docking computation. With big
> cases, RAM proves insufficient, resulting in immediate "segmentation fault", so
> that "top" cannot inform. Though, from the code it is clear that memory is
> insufficient to rotate the object in a non-parallelized part of the program.
> Smaller objects do not give problems.
> 
> My question is: with Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE, two dual opterons and 1GB RAM per
> cpu (amd64 etch), are the 16GB available to the single cpu involved in the
> computation, or are 4GB available? 

Where did 16GiB come from? I count 2x2 in the above scenario


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