> o Support for 2Gig/3Gig machines (Ingo/Leonard)
> | Im not sure quite if Ingo's patch is based on Leonards or
> | whatever. Also if you use 2Gig or 3Gig you are shrinking
> | the per process address space. So dont do it casually.
Would it be worthwhile having the kernel auto-detect how much RAM was
available, with something along the lines of the following pseudocode:
Determine RamTop.
if (RamTop >= 1000 Meg) {
if (RamTop >= 2000 Meg) {
if (RamTop > 3000 Meg) {
Warn "Limiting RAM usage to 3,000 Megs."
RamTop = 3000 Meg
}
Configure for up to 3,000 Meg of VM.
} else {
Configure for up to 2,000 Meg of VM.
}
} else {
Configure as currently.
}
No, I'm not the person to do this: (a) I haven't any means of testing
anything I do along those lines - I only have 128 Megs of RAM anyway,
and (b) I don't have the time anyway...
Best wishes from Riley.
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