Hi, FiNaLBeTa [2007-03-30 9:44 -0000]: > * bin/apport: Limit core dump size to 75% of usable RAM > (MemFree+Cached-Writeback). This should avoid trashing people's boxes hard > on huge core dumps. Bump dependencies on python-problem-report. Create an > expensive, but realistic check for this in test-apport. > (LP: #71560) > ---- > > 75%, what is this number based on?
As the changelog says, it looks in /proc/meminfo and considers MemFree+Cached-Writeback as 'usable memory'. MemFree itself is ideally 0 (if it isn't, you have too much RAM), most of it is usually taken by cache. The write cache would cause trashing, but using the read cache is still ok IMHO. -- Crash information collection depletes resources, clogs up and crashes system https://launchpad.net/bugs/71560 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
