[Gllug] back on the linux front

[- Tethys]

On 4/13/07, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:

> I'm sitting here writing this on a laptop with 512M RAM running Ubuntu. I
> never see it using swap.

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.

Tet
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