Re: Memory hogs

Rik van Riel (riel@humbolt.nl.linux.org)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:10:03 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Khimenko Victor wrote:
> > Greeaatt idea. Can you cook up patch or something ? Andrea
> > (andrea@suse.de) Rik (riel@nl.linux.org) and others tried really
> > hard to make things better but so far no really acceptable (for
> > Linus :-) solution was found AFAIK...
>
> I'll try over the weekend. The algorithm I have in mind looks as
> follows:

Please don't. My little algorithm (with no overhead on a normal
system) works great -- it has been tested by simulation folks
who want a 16MB netscape killed in favor of their week-old,
150MB simulation.

cheers,

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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