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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Locking kdecore into memory
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2007-01-24 19:08:31
Message-ID: 200701242008.32253.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2007 21:34 schrieb Gary L. Greene, Jr.:
> > > I suggest autodetecting the total amount of ram and scale linearly. No
> > > need to occupy a brain if it can be done by a computer program.
> >
> > I am not sure locking only part of necessary pages would be much benefit
> > as they are all necessary to keep GUI running. It is all or nothing
> > thing, IMO. 
[...]
> From what I've noted, the total that would need locked would be around 20
> to 30MB. This isn't much on most hardware that exists. For those that have
> only 128 MB of RAM, I'd recommend that they move up to at least 256MB,
[...]

Nah, simply implement a threshold, and degrade gracefully for lower equipped 
systems.

mfg
	Leo
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