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Re: E/L runs out of memory



>>>>> "Gene" == Gene McCulley <mcculley@iag.net> writes:
In article <4j8q2a$qpk@news.iag.net> mcculley@iag.net (Gene McCulley) writes:


    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:

    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.

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).

    Gene> Gene McCulley mcculley@iag.net http://www.iag.net/~mcculley

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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