On 04/27/2016 05:34 AM, Xen wrote:
If you have no swap and you have plenty of buffers, that makes sense. Swap is designed for systems that are low on memory.
"Low on memory" is a relative term. On another thread there is the question about browser start-up. many of us have a LOT of tabs "open" in Firefox or similar, and do not start the browser 'empty' and only visit one page at a time. FF is multi-threading; the CPU is multi core. Opening one page of, say, Wikipedia, will have links to explore in parallel. One might then also have an ebay, a Facebook, a LinkedIn, a couple of mail thread, and more all open. On some matters I may check references in email I receive while having 4 or 5 email threads open. I must admit to working like this even before X11 became dominant; job control in the shell and SCREEN(1) were a wonder for us "multi-taskers". Linux is pretty good at sharing resources but even so having six or eight "desktops", a couple of Firefox windows each with 30-80 tabs, four or five active email threads open, a couple of documents being edited, half a dozen xterms doing various things, what is ample for a 'single threader' soon gets consumed. I've been looking at new motherboards and I see some 'server' models with TWO CPUs and 128G of memory slot available .... Would make a nice desktop machine, eh? -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org