{"id":677,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=677"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"a-fix-for-too-much-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"A fix for too much RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a lot of RAM (>128MB), and find that your machine crashes fairly often, the following could be your problem:<br \/>\n<i>&#8222;When accessing a filesystem where the blocks are 2 KB [or larger], such as a CD, the [disk] cache gets bigger. When you have 256MB of RAM [or greater], it gets so big that the kernel_heap collides with another part of the kernel called the vm_heap. When that happens, the kernel can no longer resize its heap, and that&#8217;s a fatal problem [the kernel panics, and you get thrown into KDL &#8212; read: your system crashes].&#8220;<\/i><br \/>\nThe fix:<br \/>\nCopy the file <code>\/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/kernel\/drivers\/sample\/kernel<\/code> to <code>\/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/kernel\/drivers<\/code>.<br \/>\nEdit <code>\/boot\/home\/config\/settings\/kernel\/drivers<\/code> and uncomment the <code> disk_cache_size<\/code> line by removing the <code>#<\/code> sign.<br \/>\nChange <code>2048<\/code> to <code>16384<\/code>.<br \/>\nSave your changes and reboot.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><i>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Quoted text taken from <a href=http:\/\/www.befaqs.com\/>BeFAQs.com<\/a>. <\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a lot of RAM (>128MB), and find that your machine crashes fairly often, the following could be your problem: &#8222;When accessing a filesystem where the blocks are 2 KB [or larger], such as a CD, the [disk] cache gets bigger. When you have 256MB of RAM [or greater], it gets so big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}