Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 20:41:25 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: serges@umr.edu Cc: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-L <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950807203040.720B-100000@aries> In-Reply-To: <m0sdkah-0004JaC@nero.uucp>
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On Wed, 2 Aug 1995 serges@umr.edu wrote:
>
> I have a 486DX50 with 20 megs of core and ~20 megs of swap space. With
> a minimal X desktop with Netscape and 2 xterms running I can *easily*
> exhaust the virtual memory on my system! This is ofcourse, after
> running Netscape (or xv) for a long time (> 1hour continuous use). I
> usually have to kill the server and restart things.
Try allocating 2x or 3x your RAM in swap. On my 16M/64M
(real/swap) machine, the first time I ran out of swap during normal
usage was this afternoon. At the time, I had a total of fifteen
windows open. Running processes included: xv, Netscape, 6 xterms,
two "screen" processes with a total of 7 virtual terminals with 1000
lines of scrollback each, a gcc building an iteration of a CA
simulation I'm writing, an instance of that simulation running, the
xmol molecule viewer, the SoundEditor app from a nearby SGI, the strn
news reader, the ircII client, Pine 3.91 and various other things
running on the desktop. A *lot* of stuff. It was hovering around 80%
swap until I hit the Sandra Bullock home page with its thousand-and-
one inline images that pushed Netscape over 15 megs of core and
exhausted the swap.
Just before the time of death, the X server was at 10 megs VSZ,
unusually large for my gnumalloc'd binary. xv also uses gnumalloc,
but all other X clients use bsdmalloc.
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