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- Subject: Re: E/L runs out of memory
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- To: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 10:18 MST
- From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
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- >>>>> "Clifford" == Clifford T Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:
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- >>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@iag.net> writes:
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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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- 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).
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- 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.
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- -Mat
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