On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyway, closing an activity automatically when memory is short would > still be preferable to the current behavior of trashing the VM until the > OOM kicks in.
That's exactly the point :-) >> A quick hack would be to limit the number of activities that can run >> simultaneously. > > I agree. How about 4? Seems sufficient for most productive workloads. I think we should look at the output of vmstat or read the smaps and take a decision based on that. Different units have different memory; some programs are memory hogs, or can become so if you open large documents. m -- [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
