[Gllug] back on the linux front

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, - Tethys wrote:

> Hmmm. Odd. For me, just firefox alone is just about enough to make a
> 512MB box swap, regardless of which desktop environment you're using.
> And that's with prefetching disabled, too. So adding a memory hungry
> desktop into the mix pretty much guarantees a thrashing disk.

Are you sure you don't have a problem with your RAM or do you have lots of 
extra processes running?

512M is an enormous amount of RAM.

Jason
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