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From: hannum@chopin.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
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Subject: Re: Icon
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Date: 14 Jun 90 15:01:16 GMT
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In article <25937@netnews.upenn.edu> farber@pcpond.cis.upenn.edu. (David J. Farber) writes:

   when I use icon on big images I routinly loose 4 meg of disk will I reboot. Just
   wondering where that goes.


(No grammar flames here ... B-)

Icon is somewhat of a memory hog.  You should find that the swapfile (in
/private/vm/swapfile) grew by about 4 megs.  Rebooting the machine reduces
the swapfile to its normal 20 megs.
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