29/09/02 12:50:08, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi people, I have a question that has been bugging me for quite some time >now. > >I'm using Redhat 7.3 and its 2.4.18-3 kernel. I have 128MB of RAM. I >frequently use memory-hogging applications such as Mozilla and OpenOffice. > >The phenomenon that annoys me is that many times, after I've left one of >these applications for a bit of time (say, an hour), returning to it requires >a huge amount of swapping and sometimes as much as 10 seconds of wait. > That's kind of odd, especially since programs like winamp and xmms don't cache all the files at once. It shouldn't be such a big deal.... Then again, some people have claimed that linux's VM sux, especially in comparison to the BSD unices memory management. Who knows, i sure don't... All I know is that the mp3 players don't keep a big memory signature.. Eli "There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones.." - Dire Straits ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
