From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4A0E7310-9D9D-45C5-88A3-62B4A3191267@quintile.net> <20121103163103.GA48522@intma.in> <5cff355142bfe83410dce1c3fc321f25@kw.quanstro.net> <20121103165100.GA63071@intma.in> <7cd2c11374f75d628a5bb5e1f1d0919e@kw.quanstro.net> <20121103171322.GA76929@intma.in> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:58:32 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b603b064077c804cdac9a4e Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory Topicbox-Message-UUID: d35c6166-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7b603b064077c804cdac9a4e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 It needn't. Today, with the price of RAM, as many have noted, it's probably not worth the code and complexity (though there needn't be much of either), but it can be designed and made to work well. Also, despite the low cost of RAM, the systems still run out: my 3 Gbyte notebook running Chrome under Linux can run out. What Linux then does with no paging file is not pleasant, so I give it a small one, and it still thrashes trying to reclaim enough memory to continue. Pathetic. My new 4Gb notebook has the memory soldered in (Samsung Series 9). On 4 November 2012 14:18, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: > that paging sucks is not a very new discovery. --047d7b603b064077c804cdac9a4e Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
It needn't. Today, with the price of RAM, as= many have noted, it's probably not worth the code and complexity
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(though there needn't be much of either), bu= t it can be designed and made to work well.

Also, despi= te the low cost of RAM, the systems still run out: my 3 Gbyte notebook runn= ing Chrome under Linux
can run out.=C2=A0Wh= at Linux then does with no paging file is not pleasant, so I give it a smal= l one, and it still thrashes
trying to reclaim enough memory to continue. Pat= hetic.

My new 4Gb notebook has the memory soldered in (Samsung Series 9).

On 4 November 2012 14:18, hiro <23hiro@gmail= .com> wrote:
that paging sucks is not a very new discovery.

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