[ale] swap usage

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> Been noticing the same behavior on this end.  What version of mozilla are
> you running?

1.2.1

I've noticed some wierd slow downs on this machine as well.  Started 
after I moved to a new mb and processor.  Hmm, I guess that wouldn't be 
the same machine then would it?

Point is, there are times when I'll be doing something that's a bit 
memory intensive, but not cpu intensive and my box will look like it's 
frozen.  Nothing moves.  Give it a few seconds and all is well.  I never 
experienced this with my Celeron processor, just since I went to my amd 
processor.

Anyone else see things like this?

For example, I'll fire up a program that will run through a bunch of 
image files, kinda like a slideshow only real fast, no pause.  At times 
it'll fly right through them.  Other times, it will stop with one and 
sit there, maybe for a few seconds, then off it goes again.

> 
> John
> 
> Geoffrey said:
> 
>>I think that at times, I've got wierd swap usage.  I've got .5 gig
>>memory, and there are some apps I use that will eat all that's left,
>>then go to swap.  When the app leaves, the swap is not reduced, ever.  I
>> would expect that eventually, the OS would figure out it doesn't need
>>all that swap in buffer, and would return it, but it does not.  Mozilla
>>appears to be one culprit.
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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