[wellylug] Lightweight browsers, and window managers

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Nick Jensen <spoonfella at hotmail.com>:

> my swap memory is getting used? I'll give that a try tonight.
> Assuming that processes are being killed because they are using too much
> memory, is that something I can stop? I'd rather have the machine thrash
> for 
> a minute or two and let me close the non-essential ones than lose
> whatever 
> I'm doing.
Let's say that I've only ever seen sudden death's over
a range of applications when there was no more RAM (which,
in case of Linux and its virtual memory management, includes
swapping)  available ...