Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: why swap at all? | | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | | Date | Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:52:55 -0400 |
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On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:17:06 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de> said:
> Yes but: your wm is so often used/activated it will not get swaped out. > But if your mouse passes over mozilla and tries to focus it, then you will > feel the pain of a swapped-out x program.
Yes, I'm quite familiar with what a swapped-out mozilla does to my laptop ;)
The point I was making (apparently poorly) was that if mozilla is swapping in, *that window* is hosed, but if the WM or the X server is swapping in, *everything* is hosed.
And I *have* had times when I've left for an extended period while Mozilla is downloading a Knoppix .iso or similar beastly large thing, and it managed to keep Mozilla pages hot because it was busy doing a download, and the WM pages got swapped out because the WM wasn't actually doing anything...
Yes, it's a rare state of affairs, but it *has* happened... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |