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- >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Holmes <holmes@gorilla.nbn.com> writes:
- In article <Dtozz8.JF0@gorilla.nbn.com> holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) writes:
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- Tim> I have a Pentium w/ 32 meg ram, and I have been running out
- Tim> of memory (into swap anyway) using Executor running Excel. I
- Tim> did the following experiment by doing the "free" command at
- Tim> different stages. I think that the memory usage may be
- Tim> somewhat cumulative, that is, the longer I work, the more I
- Tim> use up, but that part I'm not sure of. It took over 10 megs
- Tim> of ram to open up three large spreadsheets. Is this expected
- Tim> behavior? (Caldera/Linux 1.2.13)
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- Your machine didn't start out with much free memory, and Executor has
- to have enough memory for itself (about 3Mb), the offscreen bitmap,
- the applzone and scratch space for dynamic recompiling.
-
- The Mac memory manager uses round robin to allocate memory and so even
- if you're not using all the memory (4 MB applzone), it *appears* that
- you are, at least from Linux's VM subsystem's point of view.
-
- Or at least that's my guess as to what's happening.
-
- You might want to try using "-memory 4m" instead of "-applzone 4m"
- since the former will allocate 4 Mb for applzone, syszone and stack
- total, while the latter will use 4m for applzone and then use defaults
- for the other two.
-
- Linux 2.0 does better with paging, too.
-
- Tim> Thanks,
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- Tim> Tim Holmes holmes@gorilla.nbn.com
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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