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Ubero - Using the memory tweak on comparatively low-memory systems
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Jan 26, 2002, 09:56 AM
 
I've got the memory tweak running a command line window on my iMac, which has 640 MB RAM. I also have a Pismo with 192 MB RAM.

The input into the command line for the tweak follows:
cd /Applications/Ubero
java -Xms300m -Xmx300m -XX:NewSize=100m -XX:MaxNewSize=100m -cp Agent.jar ubero.agent.Agent -text

Presumably, this means that the computer allocated 300 MB of RAM for Ubero. This works fine on systems with 512 or more, but on systems without heaps of memory, I doubt it will work effectively, because the app will be constantly swapping data to and from the HD. So I changed the small number to 40 and the large number to 120 for running on my Pismo. Should I get any speedup from this more modest tweak? Should I bother, or just run the GUI?
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Jan 26, 2002, 11:57 AM
 
Run the CLI always, but just remove the memory tweak part of the line. That way ubero will use about 55MB.
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Jan 26, 2002, 12:02 PM
 
Using the CLI without the mem. tweak would be the best way to go. You wouldn't want to steal too much mem. from your system and other apps, forcing them to use the HD.
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Jan 26, 2002, 01:49 PM
 
OK, so I'll just run

cd/Applications/ubero
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Jan 27, 2002, 10:49 PM
 
you can still use the tweak, just lower the amount it uses by enough to keep it from paging. to see if its paging type top -d and pagins should be 0. If they are more, lower it a little.
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