On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:19:54PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
On Saturday 07 January 2006 15:57, Jack wrote:
While it may be really cool to say you run 50 applications all at once, the truth is I suspect most of them are sitting idle most of the time and just using up RAM that could be made better use of by other more frequently used applications.
Most applications are not running most of the time regardless-- especially when the CPU is occupied executing another.
Yup. That's what swap is for.
I know the reason I leave many different programs running is that that's the best way to save their state. It makes me much more "interruptable"--improves my responsiveness without too much of a hit in efficiency--to be able to leave a task, move to another, work on it, and then return to the previous task. I can't remember all 40 things on my personal to-do stack, but GNU screen sure can.
My only beef is that GNU screen is limited to 40 windows per session, without modification and recompiling. ;-)