idea for running out of RAM

[Jim Gettys]

Note that more current Linux kernels, such as that in 8.2, are much
better at being able to account for what process is using what memory.
It's probably worth a little experimentation after 8.2 ships to see if
the original concept is now viable.
                       - Jim


On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 10:06 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> So UI changes that help make this clearer will probably be a good idea
> >> for a 9.1 ... :-/
> >
> > There was an early sketch of a mechanism similar to the old Home View
> > circle, where there was a space allocated to each open activity
> > proportional to the amount of memory it was consuming. In any case, it
> > is just as easy to make a bar graph as a pie chart...
> 
> Dan Winship explained the issues with this approach here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_ring .
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
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