On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:08:04PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > Previously Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > > 1. figure out what uses insane amount of memory and apply kill and/or rm > > So, this is a common response from a system that has exhaused both swap > and real memory? Any good candidates in a "standard" system? I don't do > anything now that I haven't done for years, so it's probably one of those > new "features" of Debian, right? ;-) > > I couldn't get top to run while the "event" was occuring, and afterwards > everything looked ok ... hmmm, I do seem to have a problem here. Mem: > reports 64K with about 62K in use. So how come the whole 128 meg is not > being recognized? (it shows up on the memory test at boot) try using `ps vax`, or something similar (the "v" option shows memory usage)
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