Swap goes crazy

[Alexander Toresson]

On Nov 28, 2007 5:41 PM, Paul <paul at nlpagan.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After a very long time I am back with XFCE.
> It has evolved quite a bit!
>
> I have encountered a strange problem that perhaps is easy to fix: when running GIMP and opening 4 or more larger pictures (about 2048x1520 or so), swap goes crazy, fills up completely and it is almost impossible to kill Gimp.
>
> My PC has 512Mb RAM, and in the other WM (IceWM) I did not encounter this strange behaviour. Can someone tell me how I could make things behave?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>

Are you perhaps using composite in Xfce? I don't know, but it _could_
the cause. Not said that xfce is causing it then, Xorg or your X
driver might.

Regards, Alexander Toresson