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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:16:25 +0100
From: Jakob ?stergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Ben Ford <bford@talontech.com>
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Subject: Re: out of swap
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:08:44PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote:
> Jakob ?stergaard wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > comments, Riel or Andrea ?).  I don't know of any good solution to this problem
> > other than just having enough swap space - after all, seriously, with today's
> > disks, who can't spare an extra few hundred megs (which would usually be more
> > than enough).
> 
> An embedded system for one . . . .

If you need to browse heavily illustrated web pages on an embedded system (one
small enough to not have a disk), then use a decent browser...

/me runs...  ;)

Usually ulimits can help and tons of swap is uncalled for - but this case where
Netscape makes X consume memory on Netscape's behalf is so rare (I guess), that
I don't think this is a problem worthy of the embedded-systems-VM-discussion.

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