Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:14:11 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: the new VMt |
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On Mon Sep 25, 2000 at 02:04:19PM -0600, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > > > all of the pending requests just as long as they are serialised, is > > this a problem? > > I think you are solving the wrong problem. On a small memory machine, the kernel, > utilities, and applications should be configured to use little memory. > BusyBox is better than BeanCount. >
Granted that smaller apps can help -- for a particular workload. But while I am very partial to BusyBox (in fact I am about to cut a new release) I can assure you that OOM is easily possible even when your user space is tiny. I do it all the time. There are mallocs in busybox and when under memory pressure, the kernel still tends to fall over...
-Erik
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