>reclaiming potentially lost ram and on the Pentium 100 I have at work this
>feature takes total control of my system for almost 5 seconds, total control
>meaning I can't move my mouse and anything else I am working on suddenly
>becomes unresponsive.  If there a way I can turn this off or is this the way
>it is going to be from now on?  Let me know...

It's a single function call that we make to release memory. I can't see any
reason why that should lock your system solid for 5 seconds, though if it's
allocated a huge amount of swap the OS may thrash the disk a bit.

Also, it was not added in beta 6 as you suggest - it came in with beta 5, which
is well over a month ago.

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