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>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Eisenbraun <bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> writes:

    Ben> 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.

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

This machine is too old to spend money on.  But I was hoping that
installing a video card with some memory would help with the redraw
being slow.  So I'd rather not fix the problem by taking out the card,
if there's another option.

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