begin quote On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:34:43 -0800 Pooh Sun Tzu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap > touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. > > Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to > happen. > > Eamon Caddigan wrote: > at both 1 Gb and now 512 Mb I'm hitting swap all the time. It depends on usage stats: a) if you have an active system, it will prioritize running apps + cache for those over the idle tasks. b) it does that anyhow ;) c) there is a way to reduce the buffer cache, if you really want. d) nightmare for this scenario: edit a 3.6 Gb large .tar (remove files from inside it ;) while compiling KDE... even at nice +20 you will hit a looot of swap and things will be generally unpleasant. (Did that the other day.. it was unfun) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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