On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:11:14PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like
> that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and
> images, it dips into swap, and it does that even when I close most apps. So
It sounds as though you do indeed have a memory leak somewhere rather than
just a misunderstanding of the memory statistic numbers. However, I'm
quite certain that the problem has nothing to do with the kernel, but
rather a leak in one of the apps you are running. If you say that even
after shuttin
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:46:20PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
>
> > The thing is, just because some swap space is used, that doesn't mean
> > that the pages aren't also in physical RAM. Linux is actually very good
> > about keeping things efficient, and you certainly don't need to reboot
> > to c
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:35:46AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
...
| The thing is, just because some swap space is used, that doesn't mean
| that the pages aren't also in physical RAM. Linux is actually very good
| about keeping things efficient, and you certainly don't need to reboot
| to con
> > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and
> > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something
> > useful too)
>
> In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always
like
> that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents
and
At 987806447s since epoch (04/20/01 11:40:47 -0400 UTC), Robert Voigt wrote:
>
> > What does free say? Are you really out of memory? Does top show anything
> > that's eating a lot of memory? Finally, do free and top show the correct
> > amount of memory for your system (512MB)?
>
> I didn't kn
> The thing is, just because some swap space is used, that doesn't mean
> that the pages aren't also in physical RAM. Linux is actually very good
> about keeping things efficient, and you certainly don't need to reboot
> to continue working.
Things were getting really slow because the harddriv
> What does free say? Are you really out of memory? Does top show anything
> that's eating a lot of memory? Finally, do free and top show the correct
> amount of memory for your system (512MB)?
I didn't know free and top until now, I took the information from KDE system
guard, which is probab
At 987780469s since epoch (04/20/01 11:27:49 -0400 UTC), Michael Marziani wrote:
> What does the 'pre' mean in 2.2.18pre21? I'm using that kernel too.
'pre' refers to a prerelease version of a kernel. A 'beta' of a kernel
release, if you will. The 'stable' releases are 2.2.18, 2.2.19 ... 2.2.X,
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:11:14PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> > Unless everything slows to a crawl, swaps like mad or runs
> > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and
> > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something
> > useful too)
>
> In theory, this is fine. But
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> Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike..
>
> Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it
> better for it to be unused? you paid for
At 987804674s since epoch (04/20/01 11:11:14 -0400 UTC), Robert Voigt wrote:
>
> In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like
> that.
What does free say? Are you really out of memory? Does top show anything
that's eating a lot of memory? Finally, do free and top
> Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike..
>
> Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it
> better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used
> to speed things up, cache things you might need and re-used
> when you request something in particular..
>
>
At 987795117s since epoch (04/20/01 10:31:57 -0400 UTC), giovanni sartoni wrote:
> Hi everybody
> after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep
> wandering whether it uses too much RAM.
> I have 128MB RAM, I run Debian 2.2r3,
> I see 70 - 80 MB used (whow seems worse than Win98 ?!?)
> and the
> after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep
> wandering whether it uses too much RAM.
Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike..
Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it
better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used
to speed things up, c
Hi everybody
after a few months I am using Debian at home I keep
wandering whether it uses too much RAM.
I have 128MB RAM, I run Debian 2.2r3,
run xfree86 with SVGA driver, xdm,
and Gnome under WindowMaker. Evan when I log in to
Gnome desktop with just 1 Xterm (nothing fancy is started up),
I see
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