Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote: > These days I can't watch a an average youtube video anymore without > the tab crashing. Bumping ulimit -d seems to fix that. Currently > have it at 4G, but I'll see if a lower limit works as well.
That is dirty memory, and swaps / pages out less than text. It would be nice to find a reasonable number. For chrome, in practice, this might not be possible. I think it has some subsystems that will allocate memory, hold onto it excessively and unneccesariy, and the feedback loop for dropping it is of course very weak if it suceeds at getting more new memory elsewhere...
