Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@jazzfree.com)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 08:55:22 EST


On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41:19AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> There are various patches-ways-to-do available, kernel gurus are still working
> on it...
> (leave always some 4% of mem for root, kill some process when mem is exhausted,
> which one to kill...)

which is a bad idea; 4% of 1GB is a waste, and 4% of 8mb is really pushing
it (that is, if we are speaking about root just doing cleanup stuff)

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