  dselect memory use  Back when 16M of RAM was considered a lot
(~1996) dselect ran quite nicely on  such hardware.  Now it
seems that dselect is unusable on 32M even though hard  drives
used for swap are much faster now than they used to be.  Given
the dramatic increase in popularity of virtual machine
technology (with  Xen being supported in Etch) it seems likely
that a reasonable number of  people will want to run VMs with
small amounts of memory.  For example a P3  desktop machine can
not have more than 512M of RAM installed, this gives a  maximum
of 6 domU's if each domU requires 64M of RAM.  While if 32M of
RAM  was usable then there could be 12 domU's on the same
hardware.  Is it possible to reduce the memory use of dselect?
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