Re: memory usage
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 10:38 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thomas Bushnell BSG, le Mon 20 Aug 2007 00:26:47 -0400, a écrit :
> > 1: I think it should be raised in gnumach itself, not just in the Debian
> > version.
>
> Well, it's the same for THREAD_MAX, TASK_MAX, etc.. ;)
Yes, of course. But we don't need to delay fixing this one just because
there are others to be fixed too.
> > 3: Doing (2), it seems to me, should best be done by something dynamic
> > based upon the memory available to the kernel.
>
> That's probably not so easy, because there are large objects (files) and
> small objets (directories). Sometimes you want memory to be spent on
> large objects, and sometimes on small objets.
The best is the enemy of the good. Sizing these things perfectly is
impossible. Sizing them better is achievable, and better certainly
means taking note of how much memory there is; that was the essential
bug originally.
Thomas
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