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Originally Posted by SirKenin
Actually I am afraid that is incorrect. Look at the results again. The Sandra test, not the Memtest. They are very, very close with 4 DIMMs taking a small lead.
That small lead will not be noticed in every day use. Trust me. I have played with Sandra, timings, etc for hours and hours. Sometimes I get really damn bored.
I don't know where you got that silly memory hole idea from.
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"November 2003
Avoiding Memory Fragmentation
Be careful when allocating and de-allocating memory so that you are not creating unnecessary memory fragmentation by leaving many small memory holes that are not usable. These small holes are free memory and will be counted as such, i.e. calling the function Runtime.getRuntime().
freeMemory() will return the amount of all free memory including the holes. However, this memory is unusable since the holes would be too small to hold the data objects."
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/si...ryfragment.jsp
"The regions within the STT that contain entries for addresses within unsectored regions are never referenced. Not to be wasted, these “holes” within the STT are made available as additional sectored storage through incorporation into the free list."
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/.../tremaine.html