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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.jaring.my!news1.jaring.my!ns.iris-card.com.my!not-for-mail From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:12:41 +0800 Organization: Alphaque. Anytime. Anywhere. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3303CA19.2781E494@alphaque.com> References: <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <5dvgb2$10b2@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> <33038055.22A2@ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: broker.alphaque.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35559 Richard Scranton wrote: > The allocator puts > the free'd block on a list of allocations to be reused the next time > the program calls malloc(). The memory is not returned until the > program exits. and this explains the strange "memory leak" i've noticed in keeping netscape running for over eight hours at a stretch. ;) but seriously folks, is there any method of tweaking this other than fiddling with source ? for eg, could i set limits on swapout and how long a page stays unused before it pages out ? basically, i've no problem with the default, but for some lightly loaded machines (like this one on my desktop now), i'd love to keep processes in RAM to prevent slow page-ins from an IDE. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) +=======================----oOO--(_)--OOo----=========================+ |for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b."| |done; done | +=====================================================================+ http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0x230096E9