Dave Tapuska wrote: > I had the main distribution installed on my P166 with > 64mb of RAM running for the longest time. With a crash > of the harddrive; I installed Sarge being that it very > close to going gold. Running the machine for the past > few days I am frequently experiencing out of memory > errors in perl. So I investigated a little bit and see > that the MemFree on the machine is fairly low; I have > seen it get down to 1300kb. Now I have attached output > from ps and top to show that there isn't really much > running on the machine. Why is the kernel taking up so > much memory ? I never had this problem in the past > distributions I ran. Looking a minimal requirements I > don't see how I could possibly get it running on a > 16mb machine :-) ... > Mem: 64106496 57204736 6901760 0 7970816 > 31293440 > Swap: 94920704 0 94920704 > MemTotal: 62604 kB > MemFree: 6740 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 7784 kB > Cached: 30560 kB
seem ok, linux uses the free memory (not used by apps) for caching and buffers (for better I/O), cached memory is freed when needed by apps. then, memory used by your apps is only 62604 -30560 -7784 (~25MB) > SwapTotal: 92696 kB > SwapFree: 92696 kB your swap is not used, so 64MB is enough for your system. maybe you have a problem with your perl script, or your hardware is defective. you should post this on linux.debian.user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
