Re: Dynamic Workspace setting

[Harry Thijssen]

I think this threat is has no answers yet.

Indeed the 64 MB is lower as necessary on current computers. This could be higher.

MSWindows used to use as much memory as possible for caching. So MemFree wouln´t be a good value I guess. I would suggest at least for MSWindows to set it to  1/4 of the physical memory.

If other programs need memory too, MSWindows will swap.

Have fun

 

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 06:52:39 +0200
From: John Darrington <address@hidden>
To: Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Dynamic Workspace setting
Message-ID: <20160726045239.GB4965@jocasta.intra>
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 09:46:16AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 07:06:43AM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
     > * Try increasing the "WORKSPACE" setting (see Section 16.2 of the
     > manual) This will mean it should use more of your 16GB of RAM.

     I wonder whether we should introduce some kind of dynamic way of setting
     the default workspace, for example as a fraction of the RAM in the
     system.  Currently it always defaults to 64 MB.

I suppose we could read /proc/meminfo at regular intervals and make some
intelligent estimate on how to set the workspace.

I wonder what the goal should be?  To keep MemFree to a particular value ??

J'