Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 11:20:07 06/26/00
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On June 26, 2000 at 11:57:48, KarinsDad wrote: >In both a Windows 98 and a Linux OS, my program hits the swap file heavily when >accessing the hash table. > >However, I have the hash table sized specified at about 40-45% of all memory in >both cases (I am testing on a 256 MB Windows 98 system with 120 MB hash and a >128 MB Linux system with a 50 MB hash). > >I cannot believe that my program and the OS take up so much memory that I have >to go to the swap files. This has to be an OS default which forces applications >to swap, even though they shouldn't have to. > >Does anyone know of a way to programatically tell the OS to knock it off? > >Thanks, > >KarinsDad :) Don't know if this is helpful, but in Linux if you run top it'll show you what is happening with the memory in your machine. Just type top at the command line. Cheers Andrew
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