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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:55:22 +0100
From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@jazzfree.com>
To: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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Subject: Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41:19AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> There are various patches-ways-to-do available, kernel gurus are still working
> on it...
> (leave always some 4% of mem for root, kill some process when mem is exhausted,
> which one to kill...)

which is a bad idea;  4% of 1GB is a waste, and 4% of 8mb is really pushing
it (that is, if we are speaking about root just doing cleanup stuff)

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