Actually it doesn't really use much memory at all! Because it's a demand paged virtual memory system, not one using "swapping", and furthermore those pages can be shared amongst many processes thanks to COW.
Sorry Rob, but whether it's in physical memory or in swap it's still loaded, it's still taking up some part of my address space. You would nitpick about the term swap. Linux calls it swap, as badly named as it might be, it's still swap space in this terminology, and a page pushed out to disk is still a page allocated in the system. If you have a 4GB address space to use and you have 3GB of it out on disk, you still only have 1GB left whether you can fit more in physical memory or not. -- Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org