[haiku-development] Out of memory errors when virtual memory disabled
- From: Rimas Kudelis <rq@xxxxxx>
- To: Haiku development <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:53:26 +0200
Hi,
I was getting "out of memory" errors (and sometimes plain crashes) when
compiling Haiku on Haiku. Apparently, this was happening because
disabled VirtualMemory the other day since I knew that it's unlikely for
me to use up all the 1.5 GB I have, and I thought that having that
minimal 1MB swap file wouldn't help much if I ever managed to eat up the
memory.
This would probably seem OK if not for a little fact: even with a few
applications running and Haiku compilation happening in terminal (with
VirtualMemory back on), the usage of RAM does not seem to rise above 50%
(7xx MB), and at the moment compilation was being killed, the usage of
RAM was approximately 33% only (5xx MB). I think there's a bug somewhere
in the memory manager. I would say it's way too zealous if it kills an
application because of memory hunger while the amount of used memory is
still very far below 90% or 95% (I would probably consider killing
acceptable at that point).
Should I file this as a bug? If so, what component would it be?
Rimas
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