Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM...

Gerhard Mack (gmack@innerfire.net)
Tue, 29 May 2001 07:06:20 -0700 (PDT)

> * when you have an active process using ~300M of VM, in a ~380M machine,
> 2/3 of the machine's RAM should -not- be soaked up by cache
>
> * when you have an active process using ~300M of VM, in a ~380M machine,
> swap should not be full while there is 133M of RAM available.
>
> The above quoted is top output, taken during the several minutes where
> cc1plus process was ~300M in size. Similar numbers existed before and
> after my cut-n-paste, so this was not transient behavior.
>
> I can assure you, these are bugs not features :)
>
Ive seen that here too but every report I've sent on that has been
dismissed as "that's what it's supposed to do"

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Gerhard Mack


gmack@innerfire.net


<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.


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