Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 16:28:58 09/24/03
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On September 24, 2003 at 19:00:20, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On September 24, 2003 at 16:45:20, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>Suppose you had only 512 MB, then you would have to choose between 384 MB or 192 >>MB. >>The 384 might cause swapping and it has to be allocated in one big continues >>block might not even be possible, so you'd have to all the way down to 192 MB. > >If you swap even after leaving 128MB for the operating system, you need a better >operating system. :) Window is pretty large in memory usage, it is as if many programs stay in memory after having been closed, and they load incredibly fast if you start them up again. But if I try and use 400 MB it will swap. It could just be windows cleaning up the swapfile or what I don't know, but when that ICC clocks starts ticking you don't need swapping! -S.
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