>Are there better solutions? It would be nice if prime95 could detect that
>memory thrashing was happening and pause itself until more memory
>was available. Can Windows programs do this?
Watch the time it takes to do an iteration; if it jumps up, go to sleep
for a few minutes. This won't distinguish being swapped out from being pushed
to the background, though. On Linux you can look in /proc/self/.
I once ran a program which took the more memory the longer it ran. By the end
of the night, it was taking only a few percent of the CPU, even though it
was not running nicely, and sieve was taking the rest.
>Are the defaults too aggressive (especially the 80% of RAM)?
I would set the RAM to 62% on smaller machines, 70% on larger. I have GIMP
(not to be confused with GIMPS) set up for 10 meg on a 16 meg box, and 90 meg
on 128.
phma
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