Interesting that you way that. I have 2GB
of RAM on this machine I'm simulating on, but top only shows at most
20% of RAM being used. It seems I could easily fit in another one. Of
course, this also makes me suspicious that nothing is actually going
on.
It could be that at some point the naked scripts issue limit-memory
commands to Simics. That does a pretty good job of keeping the RAM
footprint down at the cost of performance.
Ok, I guess I'll try it without the script, installing Solaris Express.
Actually this is normal. Simics' simulated CPU boards only sport 8 GB
of ram each, so you need more boards if you want more RAM, hence you
also need more CPUs.
Huh, that's another good fact. On the other hand, I only asked for 512MB of RAM this time, so it's still odd.
Jim
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