In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/14/98 at 11:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (shaul) said: >that iconifying most of these windows has little effect on the memory >usage. Yes, minimizing a program does not magically make it use less memory. Your screen may repaint faster though, when there's less to repaint.
>Does all this make sense ? >Perhaps Debian should make a small survey among its users about the size >of the swap size they are using ? I have 32M ram and 64M of swap on the home machine. I have seen it use 1.8M of swap when both running X games and compiling a kernel. I believe this will increase when I start using netscape and staroffice. :-) Helge Hafting -- ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------
