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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] out of memory
From:       Mark Bucciarelli <mark () easymailings ! com>
Date:       2005-05-26 16:54:42
Message-ID: 4295FF52.8040606 () easymailings ! com
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André Wöbbeking wrote:

>On Thursday 26 May 2005 18:05, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
>  
>
>>If you have to wait an hour for that error dialog to come up, it
>>doesn't really matter... You'll have killed X meanwhile.
>>    
>>
>
>Sure, but this depends on:
>
>- how much swap do you use (nowadays I know that it's not the best idea 
>to have huge amounts of swap for desktop machines)
>
>- how the app allocates the memory: all at once or small chunk by small 
>chunk. In the first case you don't have to wait long
>  
>
fwiu, even a large chunk won't work for sure unless you:

echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

on linux.

ref: http://www.baus.net/memory-management

m

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