Re: What is memory allocation boundery in Dindows?

[Dimiter Popoff <tgi_earth@yahoo.com>]

Monish Shah,

>There's no guarantee that an OS will be willing to give you such a large
>region of physically contiguous memory.  In fact, I suspect that most OSes
>will never be willing to do this.

I would suspect you are right about windows. I know you are mostly wrong
for DPS (our OS) - if you request 2M and there is a 2M contiguous block,
you will get it and not some collection of scattered pieces (this
allocation strategy - called "worst fit" back in the 60-es - when applied to
allocation of disk storage allows you to not need to reorganize 
your HDD for years).

 However, if you do the allocation at a very early stage, I guess even
windows will have problems doing the wrong thing so you'll get a contioguous
block - I mean when all memory is mostly non-allocated. Well, may be
I underestimate windows' consistent behaviour as a stumbling
block for anything beyond office usage...

Dimiter


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