Boy, how many times have I heard this? Check the archives for full info, but...
All memory is allocated on startup, so that programs have a place to live... All (semi) active programs reside in physical memory, until there is no more room. When this occurs, inactive/sleeping programs are swapped to your swap partition, then things are swapped as they're needed. > -----Original Message----- > From: List [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RH 7.2 memory hog? > > I recently installed RH 7.2 on a Dell 400Mhz Celeron with > 64 MB of RAM. System Info showed 98% memory used. > So I added another 128 MB (192 MB total now) and something > is hogging all the memory again! > > What can I do here? > > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
