23 Jul
2009
23 Jul
'09
6:54 p.m.
On 24 Jul 2009, at 00:09, Kassen wrote:
Oh, and I'd like to also mention that I *have* made ChucK use virtual memory. I found that when you get into that kind of situation, in my exprerience, you won't be running in realtime but will be making coffee (or dinner!) while your laptop's fan gets a workout ;-).
What might this mean? On UNIX computers, each process gets a couple of address spaces on their own, like function stack, heap, program static data; on a 32-bit machine they are typically 2 GB each and handled by virtual memory, built into the OS. One can check usage by commands like 'systat vmstat', 'vm_stat'. If there is too much paging, there is too little available RAM relative the programs in use. Hans