On Wed, 1 May 2024 11:32:18 +0100, James Harris wrote:

Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then swap space would be used.

Not a common complaint among Linux users, anyway.

Try using the “top” program to identify the culprit. It lets you list processes by various criteria, such as RAM usage and CPU usage.

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On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:47:24 +0100, James Harris wrote:

A number of years ago
I came up with what I thought was a sensible design for a paging system.
I later found that it corresponded very closely to the one used in
Windows and differed markedly from the paging system used in Linux. I remember thinking that the latter was not a good design ...

Look at all the effort those smart Microsoft engineers had to go to,
just to get Windows file copying to work properly: <https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/inside-vista-sp1-file-copy-improvements/ba-p/723622>

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On 2024-05-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:47:24 +0100, James Harris wrote:

A number of years ago
I came up with what I thought was a sensible design for a paging system.
I later found that it corresponded very closely to the one used in
Windows and differed markedly from the paging system used in Linux. I
remember thinking that the latter was not a good design ...

Look at all the effort those smart Microsoft engineers had to go to,
just to get Windows file copying to work properly: <https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/inside-vista-sp1-file-copy-improvements/ba-p/723622>

Sounds like a lot of gratuitous complexity, aggravated by their penchant
for lying about when something is done. But M$ file copying issues are
nothing new - many of us still remember being stung by the MS-DOS COPY command's refusal to copy a zero-length file (although it still deleted
a like-named file at the destination if it existed).

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On Fri, 03 May 2024 16:23:02 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

There’s not really enough in the original posting for anyone to have an informed discussion, though.

Which is the point of trolling, isn’t it?

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On 4 May 2024 10:13:26 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

... as well as "site:youtube.com" in DuckDuckGo.

Hey, does that work? Because I think Google dropped support for it a while back.

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 4 May 2024 10:13:26 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

... as well as "site:youtube.com" in DuckDuckGo.

Hey, does that work?

Sure, I'm using it more and more for websites where their own
search doesn't work without Javascript.

Because I think Google dropped support for it a while back.

Searching for "Linux memory management site:youtube.com" works for
me right now with DDG and Google.

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