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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory consumption in KDE 2.0
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-03 10:40:43
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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> 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.

At least for the linux kernel your assumption is wrong. (Just look how
SuSE starts netscape and you will unsterstand)

Regards,
-- martin

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