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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory consumption in KDE 2.0
From:       "Dirk A. Mueller" <dmuell () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-05-03 17:08:53
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Martin Konold <konold@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>> Haeh? What about the 6.4MB data? How you want to get them from hdd?
> The 6.4MB data of this OpenGL screensaver gets suspended to disk
> (paging) in case memory gets tight. After it got paged it will only
> get reclaimed when the screensaver becomes active.

That's exactly the point. It needs to be swapped out _first_. That
takes unnecessary time.


-- 
Dirk A. Mueller

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