Anton, et al -- ...and then Anton Aylward said... % % *Sigh* % % The moment we mention 'traditional UNIX' my hackles go up. That's a hacker for ya :-) ... % So much of this talk is of swap space but it not being used for swap, it's being % used for % % EITHER % demand paging memory overflow ==> call this 'page-out space' % OR % hibernation Very true. Of course, this came up a couple of weeks ago and I made the point that dumb guys such as I won't really know or care about the nomenclature and will just call it "swap space". Your point is well made, but there are still us dumb guys out there. % ... % So when I map my 80+ tabs of Firefox, of which only 4 are actually open, to % Chromium, where there is a process for each tab and a each has an open network % connection, no wonder my machine freezes! All of a sudden it is so busy % thrashing it can't do any useful work. [snip] Ironically, that is very much part of my typical profile; I run both Chrom(e|ium) and FireFox, and they're always loaded with lots of tabs in lots of windows (as multiple users, even, all on the same display) across multiple desktops (usually general comm, personal play, work, and tinkering) on a given machine, plus anything else I'm doing, and so my hotshot mobile workstation is ... adequate :-) And I'm very interested in hibernation both because it's a laptop that goes with me and because I still, for now at least, dual-boot and would rather take the shortcut of going to sleep and then coming back to where I was than to fully shut down and then start over. So I know that I need hibernation storage space, and I'm happy to give up 8G of disk for that. [Any thoughts on swapon-ing a file as I get ready to hibernate?] And I strongly suspect, given my abusive habits, that I'll end up needing process swap "page out" space even with 8G of RAM, and I don't mind giving up space for that *but* also don't want to give my system too much that can apparently slow it down. I just don't know where to draw the line and how to move it around later... Thanks again & HH :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org