Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-12 Thread Jacob Bohn Lorensen
"Matthew" == Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot Matthew going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about Matthew 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have Matthew allocated roughly

Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Gilbert
I'm running a 700Mhz K7 with 256M of RAM as my workstation. I have two fast SCSI drives with a Gig of swap between them. The system shouldn't normally be a bottleneck as a workstation. I find, however, that there seem to be some bad worst-case senerios popping up rather often. Netscape is a

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Gilbert
"Matthew" == Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew :Now the application in question (Netscape) usually runs Matthew around 50 to :75 megs, so that swapping activity is Matthew effectively swapping an amount Matthew 50-75MB is a lot, but if you have 256MB of ram it can't Matthew

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in :applications. : :And when this worst-case happens, memory is full... but the only

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Kent Stewart
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in :applications. : :And when this worst-case happens, memory

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Brian Hechinger
Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memory and started out with something on the order of

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: :Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... : : Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more : than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response : and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memory :