Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:35:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Ahmed Al-Hindawi <civilized_tafeely@hotmail.com> Cc: wmoran@potentialtech.com Subject: Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <3F222122.9D9CB7A9@mindspring.com> References: <Law14-F81TVuy16xsoI00006aac@hotmail.com>
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Ahmed Al-Hindawi wrote: > It is simply swapping when it shouldn't. > > Opening Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, DrJava, jEdit, Emacs, PrBoom, XBubbles, > and Nautilus at the same time on a 233Mhz machine should fill up the memory > (160Mb) but instead it has decided to use the swap disk for a measly 50Mb > which I do have in RAM!! Please google for the phrase "write through cache". GG. -- Terry
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