on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:46:38AM +0100, Magnus von Koeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 00:55, Alvin Oga wrote: > > in the old days .... ?memory was say 4K total ... > > Yeah, I was just wondering because on my laptop, complete with KDE > desktop and tons of programs running and all, 512MB RAM and something > like 270MB of swap, my swap is 99% free. I'm not suggesting to get > rid of all swap, I was just thinking that a gig of swap would be > kinda wasteful for me. > > I can't really say anything about servers under heavy load, of > course...
Depends on work habits. I've got 512 MiB RAM, 1 GiB swap configured, 372 MiB swap used. Heavy web browsing (Galeon has memory leaks), image editing, or sound editing can really cut into that. Ditto some database work. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? What doesn't kill you makes you stranger. -- Karsten M. Self, misreading as usual, San Marcos Pass Rd., 1988
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