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 am going to see if the logs can tell me anything now. On F7 they were not much help.
Regards, Les H