Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:16:25 +0100 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: out of swap |
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:08:44PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > <snip> > > > comments, Riel or Andrea ?). I don't know of any good solution to this problem > > other than just having enough swap space - after all, seriously, with today's > > disks, who can't spare an extra few hundred megs (which would usually be more > > than enough). > > An embedded system for one . . . .
If you need to browse heavily illustrated web pages on an embedded system (one small enough to not have a disk), then use a decent browser...
/me runs... ;)
Usually ulimits can help and tons of swap is uncalled for - but this case where Netscape makes X consume memory on Netscape's behalf is so rare (I guess), that I don't think this is a problem worthy of the embedded-systems-VM-discussion.
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