We see now that the disk buffer has shrunk down to less than 1MB and we are 5MB into swap to accommodate the large processes. Because of the swapping, the system has slowed down, and heavy disk drive activity can be heard. There is still a small amount of free memory. (The kernel tries to prevent user processes from taking all of the available memory; it reserves some for the “root” user only.)
The next step is to exit the X Window system and the applications running under it; here is the result.