[Swarm-Support] Circumventing memory leaks via swap space

[Steve Railsback]

Here's something I learned that may help someone else...

We have a giant Objective-C Swarm model that we need to run for hours at 
a time. Despite a lot of effort, it still has some memory leaks that 
gradually use up the RAM and then the swap space, limiting the length of 
runs we can do.

I got around the problem simply by creating a new giant swap partition 
on my Linux hard drive. Now, as the hours go by, the operating system 
just periodically dumps another truckload of garbage out of RAM and into 
 the swap partition. The processor (core 2 duo) does not even slow down 
noticeably as RAM fills up.

If anyone wants to know how to create more swap space in Linux, say so 
and I will post what I did.

I don't know why the same trick wouldn't work in Windows---make the 
Windows pagefile bigger.

Steve R.

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Steve Railsback
Lang, Railsback & Associates
Arcata, California
www.LangRailsback.com