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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: E/L runs out of memory
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 08:27:47 -0700
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- >>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@iag.net> writes:
- In article <4j8q2a$qpk@news.iag.net> mcculley@iag.net (Gene McCulley) writes:
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- Gene> Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote: : By default
- Gene> Executor/Linux only assigns 2 MB of memory for the :
- Gene> "application zone", which is the portion of memory where
- Gene> most : applications store their data. You can trivially
- Gene> expand this with the : "-applzone" command line switch:
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- 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.
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- I think that's a good idea. I'm forwarding it to Mat so he can
- implement it (not that implementing it is hard, but I'm tied up with
- the beta0 CD-ROM layout).
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- Gene> Gene McCulley mcculley@iag.net http://www.iag.net/~mcculley
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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