Am 22.08.2008 um 02:50 schrieb Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman): >> >> A 128Mio space of memory is not that huge, especially if you want to >> use it for something cool and you will at some points pass this mark >> and things will die; given the current algorithm it might not be >> something you want to get killed. > > 128m is massive. it's unimaginably huge. if you need more you need > to look hard > at what it is you are doing, and how. seriously. for the kind of > processing > power, storage ability and display ability of this device... - and > no. not > saying "640k is enough for everyone". i am saying that 128m is a > lot. people > who don't think so are incredibly spoilt. possibly are bad > programmers who need > to learn more about memory management or should have their > programming licenses > revoked! :) (ok just kidding there). but seriously - it's a lot. > this is why > instead of running off to swap for help - which just overflows your > ram problems > onto disk (and sooner or later swap fills - then what? you haven't > fixed the > original problem - just delayed it).
Yes, 128mb is much. Yes, memory problems don't go away with swap. They are just a bit more easy to handle. Yes, Overflowing swap is still a problem. But this means no one cared to solve the problem first. And even if 128mb are much. Why waste memory? (overcommit off + emergency threshold < 100% for save app shutdown) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community