Mldonkey too old? LowID?

[Colin Brace]

On 2/6/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> Resident is the important one (how much actualy physical memory used).

To a given app, memory is memory, swapped at a given moment or not.
"Resident" is just the bit which never gets swapped to disk. I don't
know about you, but when I am running too many RAM-greedy apps at once
(Firefox, OO, Thunderbird, Java, GIMP etc) and my system gets as slow
as cold molasses from disk thrashing, swapped memory ceases to be some
abstract technical concept; the only immediate remedy is to shut down
a couple of these behmoths. The key factor here is not the resident
memory but *all* the memory a program is using.

> Well, except for having to install a proprietary JVM from Sun, and
> having to download it from the limewire web site instead of a simple
> apt-get install...

In an ideal world, everything one would need would be GPL-ed and just
a single "apt-get install" away. But in the real world, sometimes you
need MP3, Flash, Java, Win 32 codecs, etc, as much as I wish it were
otherwise.

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam