Forcing Deallocation of Memory?

Phil's Kernel Account (kernel@eiterra.nls.net)
Fri, 5 Jun 1998 22:38:24 -0400 (EDT)


Okay, I've got AccelX 4.1 (yeah, yeah. SHADDYUP. SuSE's Permedia2 server
is an unusable piece of shit, and I hope they hear me saying this.:P), and
I've run into this ANNOYING problem..

It doesn't dealloc memory. Ever. Which makes leaving it up for more than a
few hours fatal. I only have 64M (somebody wanna send me a 64M SDRAM
DIMM?:) in this box, and 32M swap (I don't wanna repartition;). What's it
doing? I'm not entirely sure. Looks to me like it's sizing up everything
you run, then adding IT'S memory into it's own.

Now, is there a FEASABLE way that we could do forced deallocation by PID
and/or memaddr in the kernel? By feasable, I mean it doesn't trash
everything when it does it, and only forces the dealloc if the matching
PID is dead. Because the way I *PREFER* to run X, I'll need to upgrade
this box to the full 1G to keep X going. ;P

-Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :)
Linux pkrea.ketyra.INT 2.0.33 #15 Sat Apr 18 00:40:21 EDT 1998 i586
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