Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.

["Helge Hafting" <helge.hafting@daldata.no>]

In <[🔎] m0zTXce-00027fC@rakefet>, on 10/14/98 
   at 11:34 PM, shaulk@netvision.net.il (shaul) said:
>that iconifying most of these windows  has little effect on the memory
>usage.
Yes, minimizing a program does not magically make it use less memory. Your
screen may repaint faster though, when there's less to repaint.

>Does all this make sense ?
>Perhaps Debian should make a small survey among its users about the size
>of  the swap size they are using ?
I have 32M ram and 64M of swap on the home machine.
I have seen it use 1.8M of swap when
both running X games and compiling a kernel.  I believe this
will increase when I start using netscape and staroffice. :-)

Helge Hafting












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