From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 19:16:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA23206 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 19:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA23179 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 19:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id aq26267; 24 May 96 2:08 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa04683; 24 May 96 0:48 +0100 Received: (from fcurrent@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id AAA12097; Fri, 24 May 1996 00:15:05 GMT Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 00:15:05 GMT Message-Id: <199605240015.AAA12097@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk CC: current@freebsd.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net In-reply-to: <199605222249.WAA11686@jraynard.demon.co.uk> (message from James Raynard on Wed, 22 May 1996 22:49:03 GMT) Subject: Re: Possible problem with new VM code? Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> James Raynard writes: > According to top, I always have over 20MB of swap available when this > happens and about 9 or 10M of RAM, and everything else appears to be Silly me, I was looking at the wrong column in top. The 9 or 10M of RAM is the amount of *active* RAM, not free. The amount of free RAM on my system is typically about 700-800k, but sometimes goes down to 72k. I've upgraded to the version of Emacs in the -release ports, but still have problems with Emacs dying if I try and start it just after the system's been swapping heavily. I'm currently re-compiling it again with less optimisation, to see if that helps. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk