> ubject: 
>          running out of memory crashes linux?
>     Date: 
>          Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:24:02 -0800 (PST)
>    From: 
>          Mark Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a pentium 200 w/ 32 mb of ram and 60 mb of
> swap space.  The other day I was writing a program for a school assignment

Not enough swap. I'd suggest more. I used to run 64meg on a 32 meg
system with 5.2, but I was often in trouble running gimp and netscape
together, esp if netscape was open for a while and eating memory. System
started crawling...

When I put mdk 6.1 on I went all out and put a 256 meg swap (still 32
meg RAM). So far I've only used up to 85 meg of the swap, so I'd suggest
at least 100 - 128 meg swap with a 32 meg system and 6.x ('course I'm
running KDE and netscape)

eg as I sit writing the mail with the normal sort of stuff I run, I
get...

[amosf@shiva amosf]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         30540      29796        744      22004        652     
12532
-/+ buffers/cache:      16612      13928
Swap:       265032      65400     199632   

And that's before I crank up SO or WP8 :-)     

tim

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