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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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