xlock too slow to wake up

[oxy]

> RAM it can.  The question is do you see much swap being used?

swapon -s gives 2x 1.5G

I do have 8 virtual working spaces, mostly of the running a software
couse i like to have fast access to all of them. One window runs
constantly windows xp. Others are firefox, thunderbird, xfce, matlab ...

> you'll be forever buying more memory.
:-)  funny ... but i'll do that...

thx paul
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