MOL crashes

Andreas Schwab mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:13:56 +0200


David Bélanger <dbelan2@cs.mcgill.ca> writes:

|> I didn't experiment much, I am just using the following reasoning:
|> 
|> I have given my total RAM (I have 256MB).  So if I spent some time in OS
|> X, I am assuming Linux will swap to disk most of the memory of the other
|> application.

IMHO you should at least subtract the amount of unswappable memory that
Linux uses and reserve a fair amount for the page cache.

Andreas.

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