On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:51:54 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Saunders) wrote:
> [my knowledge is very limited but this is my understanding:] > mem leak=app storing stuff in RAM that it doesnt need [rubbish] > swap=method of freeing RAM by storing stuff that is currently in > the ram but is used > the least frequently on disk. > > If an application has leaked some Rubbish to RAM then it wont read > it back so it will get swaped, as the app wont request it back from > swap, it shouldnt slow down your browsing. I'm not sure myself but I think that swapping involves whole block of memory (pages??) so the browser so the app might not nead ot read the rubbish but it may need the memory block that contains (among other things) this rubbish. it is also probable that Linux swps more than one block around so you may get even more rubish. this would be an effective way of getting rid of memory leaked by programs no longer running though (an imposible situation in Linux right??). cheers, Alaa -- get my PGP/GPG signature at http://www.geocities.com/alaaov/pub_key.txt Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]
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