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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory consumption in KDE 2.0
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-05-03 9:21:59
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Martin Konold wrote:
> Ok again: The screensaver gets started and then goes to sleep until it
> becomes active. During its long sleeps it stays in memory ONLY if enough
> memory is available. In case the system becomes short on memory the Linux
> kernel will simply throw away those pages which are unaltered and therefor
> can be easily reclaimed from hdd. In case the screensaver is still
> sleeping and memory becomes really short the kernel starts to page dirty
> pages to the /swap partition/file.
> 
> This all means it does not make sense to kill the screensaver and restart
> in when needed.

I think it does. The screensaver will only be swapped out if the kernel
really
_NEEDS_ memory: it will probably not start swapping to get some memory
for
file-buffers/caching. However, if the screensaver would not be in memory
in the
first place, this memory WOULD be used for file-buffers/caching.

Cheers,
Waldo

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