On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Steve wrote:
> (I'm sure you know what swapping is but just in case... In laymen terms:
> To solve the problem of what happens when you run out of RAM a system
> has been built which makes your swap partition emulate RAM. So when it
> runs out of RAM it simply uses the swap space. Under Unixes it's a
> partition and under windows it's a file.
Generally it's a partition under *ix. You can also use a file. There's
even a way to use Windows' swap file if you double-boot.
> You have two choices really. Add more RAM or use a smaller windows manager.
> I'd say all others (but Gnome and KDE) are a lot smaller.
Yup.
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