[rescue] Overkill on an SS2

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Jun 17 15:27:02 CDT 2002


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:18:41PM -0400, Kevin Loch wrote:

> I remember some usenet post like "I just added *another* 16 megs and I 
> still get that damn message. How much memory could it possibly need?" 
> Of course the kernel was complaining about the memory space below 640k :)

For awhile when 486s were pretty spiffy, I had a program with a memory
leak that kept crashing my 486 running linux.  After upgrading the
machine to 64 megs (something that certain friends thought was a
horrible excess), I could go 2 weeks without crashing.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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