Dnia wtorek, 4 stycznia 2011 o 11:05:47 Frank Lanitz napisał(a):
> >> Scintilla IIRC uses about 2*memory for buffering, so Geany needs that too.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately there is no way of knowing how much memory is available,
> >> the requests for such information just return infinite (at least on my
> >> system) so there is no way for Geany/Scintilla to limit the usage.
> > One cannot inquire for available memory but one can inquire for Physical 
> > RAM.  If file size is greater than 2 * RAM, ask the operator.
> 
> I think this will cause even more confusing than a slow running Geany on
> a swapping system. Not every system does have a swap at all or at least
> one which is twice as RAM-size. Also I could imagine not all system does
> have a trust able syscall to figure out the physical memory.-

I obviously meant RAM / 2, sorry.
Most systems support querying the amount of physical memory.  
Regarding the system that do not, well, let them hang…

Chris


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