also sprach Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> [2002.12.23.1256 +0100]: > > Mem: 516580 475844 40736 0 170540 224736 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 80568 436012 > > Swap: 996020 0 996020 > > > > now say i'll start openoffice and mozilla and a couple of others, just to > > consume RAM. the system will not use the swap space. any idea why not? > > You haven't consumed all RAM yet. I have, although then I was unable to get a free output as the system was very unresponsive, the mouse very quirky, and it would hardlock sooner or later. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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