On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:04:15AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > James Hirschorn wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:41:10PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > >>Nobody, but nobody, needs 1GB for a swap :-) (somebody will now tell me > >>how they DO :-) ) > >> > >> > > > >What? I found that one 2GB swap partition was not enough. After letting a > >KDE session run for a couple of days, with 8 desktops and numerous apps, > >2GB swap easily gets used up. However, as soon as I log out of the session > >most of the swap memory is freed. Is this not normal behaviour? > > LOL. I knew somebody would be able to contradict me. The guy I share > an office with would probably manage to do the same. 8 desktops? I > only configure two, and practically never use the second. I just don't > keep apps open. Too much experience with Windows where that would be an > open invitation to serious failure, I guess. But I also dislike the > clutter of having all those apps open. How do you ever figure out what > you've got open?
Its not very hard: one desktop for e-mail, one for web browsers, one for Konqueror file browser, one for IDE (Kdevelop), etc ... (I always use the same desktop number for a given task.) Cheers, James
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