I was seeing that when I used KDE. Now that I've switched to
windowmaker I rarely see my system use swap. Usually only when I'm
compiling, listening to a cd, reading email and working on something in
the GIMP.
Abe
Michael Scottaline wrote:
>
> Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Something just occured to me as I reading through this post again.
> > (no... I know what you're thinking and that's not it...I was cleaning up
> > my mail and this happened to catch my attention.) Anyway, at the moment
> > I'm running SETI@home, which is very resource intensive, Pine, and
> > Netscape (browser, and email) AND a download, and I haven't even touched
> > my Swap space yet. I've only got 64MB of RAM in this old box. :)
> > --
> > Mark
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> That is rather surprising. I know linux likes to use as lots of ram when it's
> available and the more available, the more it will frequently use. I have one
> box with 128m and another that I just bought w/256m. Both frequently show
> using much more than 64m, but almost never use any swap. Are your running
> xfce? Or some other small wm? I've really gotten to like Blackbox. Very
> small footprint and quite fast and functional.
> Mike
>
> "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing
> and dreadful idolatry took place there!"
> Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century
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