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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.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