• Re: Linux user doesn't seem to manage memory very well

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to James Harris on Wed May 1 20:26:45 2024
    On Wed, 1 May 2024 11:32:18 +0100, James Harris wrote:

    Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then swap space would be used.

    Not a common complaint among Linux users, anyway.

    Try using the “top” program to identify the culprit. It lets you list processes by various criteria, such as RAM usage and CPU usage.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to James Harris on Fri May 3 01:47:47 2024
    On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:47:24 +0100, James Harris wrote:

    A number of years ago
    I came up with what I thought was a sensible design for a paging system.
    I later found that it corresponded very closely to the one used in
    Windows and differed markedly from the paging system used in Linux. I remember thinking that the latter was not a good design ...

    Look at all the effort those smart Microsoft engineers had to go to,
    just to get Windows file copying to work properly: <https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/inside-vista-sp1-file-copy-improvements/ba-p/723622>

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  • From Charlie Gibbs@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri May 3 19:32:57 2024
    On 2024-05-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:47:24 +0100, James Harris wrote:

    A number of years ago
    I came up with what I thought was a sensible design for a paging system.
    I later found that it corresponded very closely to the one used in
    Windows and differed markedly from the paging system used in Linux. I
    remember thinking that the latter was not a good design ...

    Look at all the effort those smart Microsoft engineers had to go to,
    just to get Windows file copying to work properly: <https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/inside-vista-sp1-file-copy-improvements/ba-p/723622>

    Sounds like a lot of gratuitous complexity, aggravated by their penchant
    for lying about when something is done. But M$ file copying issues are
    nothing new - many of us still remember being stung by the MS-DOS COPY command's refusal to copy a zero-length file (although it still deleted
    a like-named file at the destination if it existed).

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Richard Kettlewell on Fri May 3 22:12:27 2024
    On Fri, 03 May 2024 16:23:02 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

    There’s not really enough in the original posting for anyone to have an informed discussion, though.

    Which is the point of trolling, isn’t it?

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Sat May 4 01:12:14 2024
    On 4 May 2024 10:13:26 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    ... as well as "site:youtube.com" in DuckDuckGo.

    Hey, does that work? Because I think Google dropped support for it a while back.

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat May 4 11:58:48 2024
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On 4 May 2024 10:13:26 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    ... as well as "site:youtube.com" in DuckDuckGo.

    Hey, does that work?

    Sure, I'm using it more and more for websites where their own
    search doesn't work without Javascript.

    Because I think Google dropped support for it a while back.

    Searching for "Linux memory management site:youtube.com" works for
    me right now with DDG and Google.

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