Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-26 Thread Ahmed Al-Hindawi
thanks for all the help guys, I appreciate it. And sorry for using the word "dude"; I got a little agitated because people always expact them selves to be superior than youself because you are the one asking the question and they are answering!! Thanks anyway ___

Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-26 Thread Ahmed Al-Hindawi
If your system is spending a lot of time moving data to and from swap when it is not memory-starved, or if it is stalling memory allocations that it should be able to fulfill from free RAM, that's a concern. That is exactly it. I emphaises th words " when it is not memory-starved ". It isn't mem

Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-25 Thread Ahmed Al-Hindawi
dude, I have a third of my memory free!! _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-25 Thread Ahmed Al-Hindawi
This is not the problem. We know what is the purpose of swap data. It is swaping when there is more than suffiecient memory to do so. There is disk activity on the swap disk (I have a seperate disk for faster access) even when there is enough memory to suit my request and more. It is simply swa

Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-25 Thread Ahmed Al-Hindawi
hi, I recompiled my kernel yesterday and that game me an entire 4Mb more...WOW!! sarcasim killed the cat, but anyway. A debug option, *NOT THE* degug option, in the config file of the kernel was activated so I commented the line out and I got an extra 4Mb !! WOW. It was this line: Options

Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-24 Thread Ahmed Al-Hindawi
Hi, I have 160Mb of SDRAM (PC100) on a 233Mhz CyrixInstead machine and I seem to have memory mangament problems. The BIOS indicates I have 160, so does the BSD bootstrap program. When I launch GNOME 2.2 everythings is good as gold untill I open the System monitor program. It says that I have 149