RAM space vs swap space

[arson smith]

>Windows is a poor memory manager.  Even with 128MB of RAM Windows is still 
>using
>VM and swapping stuff out before it has used up all of the Physical RAM.
>

sorry I ment I run windows in a vm (vmware) with 64 megs ram alocated to it. 
  Linux never hits swap and vmware is sucking 50-70 of my 128 megs.

> > graphics work but most of the high end graphics work I have
> > seen have had a minimum of 256 megs ram.  It seems like a lot
>
>From info off the Lightwave mailing list (Windows 3d application), it is
>recommended that for graphics work you should have 128MB of RAM per 
>processor
>minimum.
>
> > to me but I guess when images are 10-30 megs compressed they
> > really take up a lot of ram when being worked on.
>
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