RAM space vs swap space

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Author: Shawn T. Rutledge
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Subject: RAM space vs swap space
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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