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On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:41:48AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
> This has solved the problem of the screen redrawing too slowly when the
> machine is swapping itself to death, because now X hangs well before
> firefox has leaked memory into that state.  

If the machine is swapping, you should buy more RAM.  Changing out the
video card or video driver is unlikely to have much effect if you're
thrashing the swap partition.

-ben 

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