On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:47 -0700, Les wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 17:57 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > resources are strained. If you leave firefox unattended whil it is
> > hooked on to some web page that is running crap on your system, well,
> > I guess you get what you deserve.
>
> echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
>
> and your system will refuse to overallocate resources. You may need more
> swap that way but as all the resource really does exist your computer
> shouldn't do an impression of the rather analogous US housing market by
> handing out more than exists and then finding it all in use.
>
> Alan
>
My most recent test showed no effect on swap (1G Ram in the machine and
0 swap used). But Acroread was consuming 100% of one processor. I have
also re-acquired a problem I had with early F7 where I am getting
frequent "Connection reset by remote host" messages and also lots of
interrupted page loads on firefox (probably related).
I have seen cases where acroread would consume 100% CPU time, even if I
restarted acroread, until I completely exited/restarted firefox. I
don't remember the exact details, but it seemed like they may have been
in competition for an X resource. I don't remember if both firefox or
acroread were both eating up CPU time or not. In my case this was under
F7.
Nataraj