Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-12 Thread Jacob Bohn Lorensen
> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot Matthew> going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about Matthew> 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have Matthew> allocated r

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: :Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... :> :> Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more :> than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response :> and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memor

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Brian Hechinger
Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... > > Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more > than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response > and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memory > and started out with something on the order of

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Kent Stewart
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a > :lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap > :used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in > :applications. > : > :And when this worst-case happens,

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in :applications. : :And when this worst-case happens, memory is full... but the only :active

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Gilbert
> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> :Now the application in question (Netscape) usually runs Matthew> around 50 to :75 megs, so that swapping activity is Matthew> effectively swapping an amount Matthew> 50-75MB is a lot, but if you have 256MB of ram it can'

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm running a 700Mhz K7 with 256M of RAM as my workstation. I have :two fast SCSI drives with a Gig of swap between them. The system :shouldn't normally be a bottleneck as a workstation. : :I find, however, that there seem to be some bad worst-case senerios :popping up rather often. :...

Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Gilbert
I'm running a 700Mhz K7 with 256M of RAM as my workstation. I have two fast SCSI drives with a Gig of swap between them. The system shouldn't normally be a bottleneck as a workstation. I find, however, that there seem to be some bad worst-case senerios popping up rather often. Netscape is a go