on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:46:38AM +0100, Magnus von Koeller (magnus@vonkoeller.de) wrote:
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> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 00:55, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > in the old days .... ?memory was say 4K total ...
>
> Yeah, I was just wondering because on my laptop, complete with KDE
> desktop and tons of programs running and all, 512MB RAM and something
> like 270MB of swap, my swap is 99% free. I'm not suggesting to get
> rid of all swap, I was just thinking that a gig of swap would be
> kinda wasteful for me.
>
> I can't really say anything about servers under heavy load, of
> course...
Depends on work habits. I've got 512 MiB RAM, 1 GiB swap configured,
372 MiB swap used.
Heavy web browsing (Galeon has memory leaks), image editing, or sound
editing can really cut into that. Ditto some database work.
Peace.
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