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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
