[haiku-development] Re: Default virtual memory size is too big
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:26:38 -0400
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:30 AM, SHINTA <shinta.0806@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I installed Haiku r1 alpha1 on 5GB partition. After first launch, I
> noticed that there is almost no disk space! Haiku became monster OS?
> No, criminal is VM.
>
> Default virtual memory size is over 4GB. Real memory 2GB+VM 4GB=6GB.
> Does Haiku need such a big memory?
>
> I think about 1GB or 2GB memory (real+VM) is enough for Haiku.
Yeah I agree the default VM size calculation is a bit silly. I've seen
similar disk space losses on testing virtual machines, so I just
disable the virtual memory. I guess we need to come up with some
heuristic, though I think the virtual memory could just be disabled if
a certain about of physical memory is available (2-4 GB maybe.)
Checking against disk space is smart too, as David suggests.
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Regards,
Ryan
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