[haiku-development] Re: Out of memory errors when virtual memory disabled
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:48:38 +0100
Axel Dörfler wrote:
> On 05.12.2011 14:29, Rene Gollent wrote:
> [...]
> > bit more RAM than you might expect. When swap is enabled, the VM
> > allows overcommits since in the worst case it can page things out one
> > page at a time (extremely slow but it's at least doable, even with
> > just 1MB).
AFAIK overcommitting is unrelated to whether a swap file is available. A 1 MB
swap file helps very little; it just means 1 MB of additional swappable memory
can be committed.
> Sounds like we could also reserve some RAM to do that if there is no
> swap file -- if someone would be interested enough to do that.
Now I'm confused.
CU, Ingo
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