<p>Or processing huge huge amounts of data that can't be processed in streams, though that is pretty rare.</p>
<p>--<br>
Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.<br>
That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2011 12:06 PM, "Mike Harrison" <<a href="mailto:cluon@geeklabs.com">cluon@geeklabs.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Michael Trausch wrote:<br>
> <br>>> Even using my desktop system for heavy tasks, I rarely dip into swap usage.<br>>> I have 6 GB RAM, and unless I am being pretty wasteful everything fits in<br>>> that. Even multilayer GIMP images while compiling the kernel and GCC seems<br>
>> to not fill up memory (but I can say bye bye to I/O bandwidth...)<br>> <br>> At modern day ram prices, using SWAP is a sign of either not having enough <br>> ram, doing something stupid, or really bad programming.<br>
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