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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 10:47:59
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Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> 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)

Please clearify this? The kernel starts swapping to free up memory for
buffers?
How does SuSE starts netscape? I don't run SuSE.

Cheers,
Waldo

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