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Re: E/L runs out of memory



>>>>> "Clifford" == Clifford T Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:

>>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@iag.net> writes:

    Gene> What do you think of having E/L look at /proc/meminfo to
    Gene> figure out how much memory to use by default?  You could
    Gene> have E/L use say 50% of real RAM by default and still let
    Gene> the user override it on the command line.  This would be
    Gene> better default behavior on systems with more memory.

    Clifford> I think that's a good idea.  I'm forwarding it to Mat so
    Clifford> he can implement it (not that implementing it is hard,
    Clifford> but I'm tied up with the beta0 CD-ROM layout).

OK, this is now implemented.  Under Linux, your default -applzone will
now be 1/4 of total physical memory (as reported by /proc/meminfo) or
2MB, whichever is higher.

-Mat


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