Re: [coLinux-devel] Memory size and killing console by Esc

[Thomas F. <tf...@no...>]

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Hi Dan,

if I understand you right you can'n allocate the memory from within the
kernel space, but what abount a kind of ramdisk (in userspace). Such a ram
disc could  then be used as swap-partition in the linux world. Of course
there is much overhead to transfer memory always from userspace but maybe
this is nevertheless faster then reading/writing to hd?

Thanks and regards,
 Thomas

> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:52:31AM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>
>> 1. Could memory size for coLinux be configurable? Current 24Mb or so
>> is a joke. Yes, swap can be mounted, but why experience perfomance of
>> vmware level? ;-) It would be nice to have memory size configurable in
>> XML config, but if it's some time to do, could next release ship with
>> at least slightly decent amount, like 64Mb (128Mb better ;-).
>
> The major problem with what you are suggesting, is the limitations
> enforced by Windows' non cached memory allocator. This pool is
> hardcoded to a limit of 256MB and even 128MB on some systems. Allocating
> too much memory from that pool can destabilze Windows.


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