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> Do you ever use all 128 megs?  I have 64, and rarely use it unless I
> have staroffice and netscape or gimp open at the same time.  

Yes, this is something that continues to puzzle me -- I'll often run
Netscape and Gimp on KDE, and the system will eat up 63 MB's of my
memory, but when I launch yet another app, it won't write to swap. Even
though memory is getting dangerously low!

Also, as we know, KDE takes up a lot of resources, a large portion of
which aren't freed when leaving X and returning to the console. Linux
somehow manages to flush out (free up) the memory, however, when
returning to X. Again, the swap partition isn't written to.

Any gurus care to speak out about how these memory issues are managed?
It's truly one of the unique features of the Linux OS, and I'd like to
know more.

-- Glenn --
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