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vte3 package

  1. Bug #1430620
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1430620

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Bryce Nesbitt (bryce2) wrote :

>How do you think gnome-terminal should handle that? Suppose you have 4 GB of ram, shall it consume up to 3 GB and then >starting using the disk? Sounds not only hard to implement, but also why should it take away RAM from other apps?

The Linux virtual memory system is highly adept at swapping out content that's not in active use,
keeping RAM for what's hot. The global system for this works quite well.