RAM space vs swap space

[Shawn T. Rutledge]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:19:21AM -0700, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> No.  This was with minimal apps open.  No gimp running.  When I load Gimp and
> work with images, lots of disk activity is happening, and free swap space
> becomes low.  I just wanted to demonstrate how much memory is occupied by cache
> and shared memory.  

Well Gimp is also an inordinate hog.  I wish they'd fix it.  It's better
in 1.1 than it was in 1.0 though.

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