Re: Use Less RAM!

From: Daniel Koepke (dkoepke@CALIFORNIA.COM)
Date: 02/20/98


On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, George wrote:

->On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Pure Krome wrote:
->
->>Provided this works ... YOUR A F&^*&G LEGEND MATE!
->
->Why not just do it completely as SillyMUD does?
->
->Everything is loaded on demand, and I believe unloaded later but never
->played with it long enough to find out.

<nod> SillyMUD idles everything out when it hasn't been accessed for a
while.  It still only gives the illusion of saving memory, though.
For most operating systems, when you need more memory, it will
automatically swap to disk for you.

-dak


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