FERGUSON@TMASL.EXXON.COM (05/19/89)
On any machine with 8 Megs of RAM, I have a process that needs only 4 megabytes, dedicated hardware memory. I can't for the life of me steal it back from the operating system. If I had all the memory I need, things would go nice & fast like they have to, but when I have to swap to virtual memory, things can really put you to sleep. How can I keep sr9.7 from eating my memory?! I thought we weren't going to see such problems until sr10 (which still gets my goat- I was mad a year ago about memory-eating OS's, and that was before our neighbors to the far east decided they were on a hot product) All I want is for the OS to leave 4 of the 8 Mbytes alone. Anyone know how? I've tried setting top process priorities, and killing all other processes other than the DM, and nothing seems to help. Thanks to anyone with any ideas. Scott Ferguson ferguson@erevax.bitnet
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (05/22/89)
Have you tried using /com/netsvc to limit the amount of memory being consumed by the network paging servers? By default, they are allowed to consume as much memory as is available. On our 4MB nodes, we generally use "netsvc -s 2 -p 256" to set up the machine with two sets of servers limited to 256 Kb of memory. This seems to work well. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)