Dear On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:43:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't speak for the others, but its good to restart netscape at least 2 > or 3 times a day if you only have 128MB.
Yes. I noticed that. But I cannot control easy *when* to restart the netscape without being full aware of how much memory is taking. I don't prefer manual control of that. > marko >Usually there is no problem, but then about 5 o'clock when cron jobs > marko >start working, memory is filled up somehow, and my X becomes so slow, > marko >that I cannot switch to console any more to kill some programs. > > Are these system cron jobs or are they cron jobs you set? 5AM ? Yes, those are system crons, like locate, find and such. > could this be the locate database updating ? that takes about 30 minutes > on the average system i think. the system can drag real bad during that > time if its slow. Yes it is. But I hoped to find a way, that system stays stable after htat. Even when Netscape is taking ALL the memory, I would like to find a way to let my system be stable. What happens by default when all memory and swap file is exhausted? I would like to know that. Must it be that system crashes or that it denies every use of my computer? > you shouldn't have to "free" swap. but in your case i would for sure add > more swap, and even better to add more ram, it is good practice to have 3 Even then. What is supposed to happen when all RAM is exhausted? Sincerely, Marko Cehaja
