That answers my question. I'm just going to have to get more ram. Thanks
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Mark Holmquist <marktrac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a question about switching desktops. If I switch my desktop to >> a different desktop, does ubuntu write the desktop that I am >> navigating away from to swap so that the memory is freed up? I have >> limited ram on my ubuntu desktop. Only 512Mb. So I'm wondering if the >> memory is freed up (for the most part) from the desktop I'm leaving, >> and made available to the desktop that I am navigating to. > > Switching workspaces only changes your perspective. The processes on the > other workspaces (the ones not active) are still running, even if the windows > are not currently visible. There would be very limited advantage to writing > the graphical representation to disk, which is a very expensive operation in > general, especially if it is likely that the workspace will reappear very > soon. > > If you have several processes running that you don't need at any particular > moment, it would be better to end them (using the quit command in the program > or SIGKILL from the kill command), or stop them (SIGSTOP from the kill > command) to be resumed when needed (SIGCONT from the kill command). `man > kill` and `man ps` have more info on process management. Of course, the kill > command should NEVER be used without understanding what you're doing very, > very well. But quitting the applications that you don't mind seeing stopped > might be a good idea, rather than switching workspaces. > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Student, Computer Science > University of Redlands > marktrac...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
