From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 5 17:33:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA08016 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 17:33:05 -0700 Received: from minerva.cis.yale.edu (minerva.cis.yale.edu [130.132.143.250]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA08009 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 17:33:03 -0700 Received: by minerva.cis.yale.edu id AA22496 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Sat, 5 Aug 1995 20:33:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 20:33:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez Subject: VM question To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a friend (samman@cs.yale.edu) who is running an IBM ThinkPad 500 with 12MB RAM/10MB swap, FreeBSD 2.0.5R. In the course of running X, he is getting out-of-swap errors, but is not using more than 15MB of VM ever. We just upgraded this from 1.1.5.1, and I remember a lot of discussion about the overcommit algorithms, and I was wondering if either John Dyson or David Greenman could explain away this behavior. Also, if this is the expected behavior, is there a #define to change it or could someone point me to the correct place to hack? Thanks, Marc. -- I telnetted to whitehouse.gov, and all I got was this lousy .signature!