johnsfine;

Thanks for your reply. The threads answers to the original question are clear and make sense to me. The 3 GB per process is a new one for me and explains a lot.

BTW; the system has a hard drive which is intended for music and video storage.

I am not ready to accept your suggestion that swap from a SSD is bad practice. I need a better understanding of swap and the trade offs involved. Intel appears to use a 20 GB SSD as a giant swap drive in their Z68 chipset for the 1155 socket. However, this is clearly off subject, so I will retire from here with a thank you.

T L
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