On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:10:53AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Dear devel@, > > Kim, Greg, and I have concluded that the instability we experience under > memory-pressure in 8.2-759 and similar is the single "hard" issue that > we wish to _attempt_ to address before releasing 8.2 on current > timeframes. [...] > * We ought to ponder whether there are any additional "dirty hacks" we > can experiment with in order to reduce memory consumption; for > example, running the Shell and Journal (and DS?) in one process or > making use of the compressed-caching code published on this list some > months ago.
Compcache has been working well enough for me for the last six months to suggest that wider testing wouldn't be a disaster. -bash-3.2# cat /boot/olpc_build joyride 2399 -bash-3.2# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 235716 230356 5360 0 1628 65448 -/+ buffers/cache: 163280 72436 Swap: 58924 2736 56188 -bash-3.2# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/ramzswap0 partition 58924 2736 100 The trac ticket is http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/28 > Regards, > > Michael Martin
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