Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

Just a few minutes ago I managed to issue a top command and it appears that I had (or have during the slowdowns) more than 1 (YES, you read well!) processes running. the numbers is decreasing as time passess to the overall 42-50, which is kinda expected. I have no idea what spawns (is this th

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 at 12:56:47, Antony Gelberg wrote: > J. Zidar wrote: > > Hello. I have a very peculiar problem with my Debian install. > > > > It seems to me that Debian is not using my ram at all, because I can > > hear and see a lot of disk activity happening, which could only mean > > that

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 at 14:02:44, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:50:54PM +0200, J. Zidar wrote: > > BTW: Is it normal that XFree86 uses 280 megs of ram? > > Maybe. That figure probably also contains your video RAM. How much RAM > does your video card have ? > > Frank > > > -