Linux-Hardware Digest #285, Volume #13 Sun, 23 Jul 00 22:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem (Dave Slusher)
Re: Need help with ibm scsi DFHW S2W disk (Mike Frisch)
Re: M$ IntelliMouse (Christian Weihs)
Maxi Studio ISIS (ess/maestro soundcard) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DSL DRIVERS??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DSL DRIVERS??? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: DSL DRIVERS??? (Alex the Koala)
Strange problem with SB AWE64 setup (MH)
Re: AMD Duron & Microstar M/B (Meteor)
Re: Soundcard Problems. (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW? ("Hien Pham")
Re: Digital Camera (Rod Smith)
Re: What distribution to install ? (blackbird rises at sun rise)
Re: What distribution to install ? (blackbird rises at sun rise)
Re: Netgear ethernet problem (Steven Fosdick)
Re: Two weird problems - 2: Memory (Steven Fosdick)
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From: Dave Slusher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.help
Subject: Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:29:02 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans Vredeveld
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > How do I have to proceed to use the internal modem of a Compaq Armada
> > 1700 (6300/T/5000/D/0/2) model with SuSE-Linux 6.4 ?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the Armada a notebook? If so, you may
> quiet safely assume the internal modem is a Winmodem (also known as
> software modem), which means it will not work with Linux.
>
> Hans
No you cannot. I have an Armada 1590DMT with RedHat 6.1 running on it
(with no Windows installed whatsoever). I have no idea what the modem
is, but the first time I tried to use it, it worked. I've never really
pursued the mystery of what modem it is, but it is either a hardware
modem or somehow magically works. I dial up with it regularly.
What is your source for this broad and incorrect generalization?
d
--
http://www.sff.net/people/dave_slusher
http://realitybreak.sff.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Need help with ibm scsi DFHW S2W disk
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:33:35 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:45:03 GMT, Dave Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been using this configuration for several months along with an ide
>hard disk without a problem and decided to try out a scsi disk. I
>disconnected the cdrom, since the cd-r provides termination, and
>connected the scsi disk in-line. The scsi disk has a 68 pin connector
>so I used a 50 pin to 68 pin converter.
There should be no trick. Confirm your termination settings of the hard
drive (everything - TERMPWR and TERM - off if you're using the CD-R for
termination). Also, ensure the SCSI ID of the hard drive is 7 or less.
Failing that, ensure your SCSI cable is of decent quality and possibly
consider using an external, active terminator.
Mike.
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:28:23 +0200
From: Christian Weihs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: M$ IntelliMouse
Jim Broughton wrote:
> The solution to this is to place the following in your
> XF86Config file in the mouse profile area
> make sure to have emulate3buttons commented out.
>
> ZAxisMapping "4 5"
>
> if using Xfree86 4.0 or 4.0.1 ...
>
> option
> "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>
> Then install imwheel (it is on most distros)
> Next run your startx command or restart your
> window manager. In KDE run the file manager
> find the IMWHEEL binary (usually in /usr/X11R6/bin)
> copy the file to KDE's autostart folder. Your
> wheel should now work with everything includeing
> netscape.
> --
That did the Wheel-Thing!!! I can now scroll around!
Thanks, Jim.
christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Maxi Studio ISIS (ess/maestro soundcard)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:34:57 GMT
Does anybody know how to configure that soundcard ?
I have recompiled the kernel with sound support
I have nothing between "Sound initialization started/complete", but
later the maestro driver configure 1 channel well
I get something with empty fields when doing a "cat /dev/sndstat"
And of course I still have no sound :(((
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: DSL DRIVERS???
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:42:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:15:58 -0400, phlying penguin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is there support for SpeedStream USB and/or PCI dsl modems that I can
> >get for Mandrake???
>
> None, nada. Only external, ethernet modems fly with DSL.
>
> http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
wronr partner.
http://www1.sympatico.ca/help/local/bell/hsedownloadslinux.bell.html
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: DSL DRIVERS???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:15:58 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:42:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:15:58 -0400, phlying penguin
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Is there support for SpeedStream USB and/or PCI dsl modems that I can
>> >get for Mandrake???
>>
>> None, nada. Only external, ethernet modems fly with DSL.
>>
>> http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
>
>wronr partner.
>http://www1.sympatico.ca/help/local/bell/hsedownloadslinux.bell.html
Well, amigo, I see absolutely _nothing_ about any USB/PCI modems on that
page -- Efficient Networks or otherwise. It looks like instructions for
installing client software. I can't get to the downloads page
since I am not a customer of their's. Are the drivers hidden there?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alex the Koala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: DSL DRIVERS???
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:20:11 GMT
That's for external modems... it's very clear on the page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > None, nada. Only external, ethernet modems fly with DSL.
> >
> > http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
>
> wronr partner.
> http://www1.sympatico.ca/help/local/bell/hsedownloadslinux.bell.html
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange problem with SB AWE64 setup
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:29:17 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running RH 6.0 and recently upgraded to the most recent kernel.
While doing so, I compiled sound card support into the kernel,
forgetting that sound drivers needed to be loaded as modules (at least
for SB cards). Of course, this left me without sound. I recompiled the
kernel to load sound drivers as modules, then ran "sndconfig" and
rebooted.
I received the following errors:
"sound: Device or resource busy"
"post-install /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/awe_wave.o failed"
"/etc/isapnp.conf:17 Fatal Error 'ISOLATE PRESERVE'"
I went into isapnp.conf to see what I could find. I noticed that
"sndconfig" configured my sound card using the second set of options in
isapnp.conf rather than the first set--which had always been the case
previously with this card, a SB AWE64. I reset the configuration to
what I thought it should be. I rebooted (I'm sure there is a way to do
this without rebooting) and got the same error.
Fortunately, I had an old configuration file to examine. When I looked
a line 17, which I supposed the error message to indentify, I saw
"(ISOLATE PRESERVE)" without quotes, which I suppose is a kernel command
or option. Immediately above that was "(READPORT 0x020b)". My new
isapnp.conf contained "(READPORT 0x0203)". I changed that address to
match my old configuration file and voila', no boot error messages.
Any ideas on why "sndconfig" misconfigured the sound drivers? Seems
very strange, as it has always correctly configured these drivers
before. Could it be something that was tweaked in the new kernel?
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From: Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD Duron & Microstar M/B
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:18:38 +0200
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:29:15 +0100, "Dave G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have (quite a few) new systems with an AMD 6340 m/b and an AMD Duron
>600MHz CPU. I have already had to find a way round the PCI problem but my
Could you please explain that "PCI problem"? I intend to buy a 6340...
Thanks!
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Soundcard Problems.
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:34:15 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root wrote:
> Dear Group
>
> I have a problem here with sound which is driving me insane..! Has
> anyone managed to get any sound from a Trident soundcard using alsa
> drivers or any others for that matter. The reason I ask is that I have
> a Trident addonics sv 750 soundcard which under kernel 2.2.14-15mdk is
> detected by sndconfig but that reports that the card is not supported
> but I should try alsa-project..! I tried alsa-drivers with the -lib
> -utils-0.5.8 which required the 2.2.16 kernel which i've clean installed
> at least 10 times but as yet no joy. I've done all the usual things
> like enable sound support only in the kernel, setup a module in the
> kernel and even selected the option to install a trident driver for the
> 4DWave DX. Nothing seems to work. Infact it gets worse. Once I've
> updated the kernel to 2.2.16, I can run sndconfig but get the following
> message:
>
> ' You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound enabled '
>
> Well I think I am. Sound support is enabled every time. It works OK
> until I do the update then everything goes pear shaped - a bit like my
> head at the moment. :o)
>
> I've tried using the 2.4test kernel but again, no joy. Any ideas..?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Martin Kelly - Registered Linux User
>
One little thing - try not to surt the Internet as root - BAD THING
(TM).
To install AL:SA, you need to compile "Sound support " to a MODULE, not
into the kernel. All the rest of the sound card drivers must either be
compiled AS MODULES or not compiled AT ALL, but never into the kernel.
--
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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From: "Hien Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.verilog
Subject: Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:13:23 -0700
Neko,
What would be the cheapest home set up for design tools/hardware that one
can have ?
I can get linux to run with two intel 1GHZ CPU's, what tools can I use ? Is
there any any sysnthesis tool to use with Linux these days ?
"neko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ked10$ut4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Steven Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Now that Pentium w/ 1GHz+ chips are available, using PCs with Linux to
> > run [selected] EDA applications suddenly becomes an irresistible
> > alternative. Anyone can share their experiences in this area?
>
> I don't know how many of you are interested in this ...
>
> I have a Sun machine (Solaris 7) as my primary environment.
> Since my machine is Sun Sparc5 (160MHz), newer PC is much much faster.
> But I don't want to use both Solaris and Linux as working environment.
> (Personally, I prefer Solaris over Linux.)
>
> To solve this problem, I installed lxrun on PC (on top of Solaris/x86).
> This way I can use Linux based EDA tool while I stay in Solaris
> environment.
>
> My Verilog simulator (floating license) supports both interpreter and
> compiler mode on either Solaris/Sun or Linux/PC.
>
> I usually use interpreter mode on Sun/Solaris to debug my code.
> Once the code is settled and if I need speed then I will run the
> simulation on PC.
>
> Even my PC is just AMD K6/III 450MHz, the speed difference is ...
> amazing. (I'm planning to buy a 1GHz PC when it becomes sub-$1000.)
>
> Again, the reason why I did this is I wanted to keep homogeneous
> environment.
> If your primary environment is Linux/PC, this info is no use.
>
> Aki-
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Digital Camera
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:53:03 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Galileo 7 - IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello!
>
> I own a Casio UV2000Ir. There is a lot of software for windows in the boy when
> you buy the camera, but nothing for Linux (like usual ;-(). I tried gphoto, but
> it does not work with this type of camera. Does anybody know a way to transfer
> the photos from the camera into a computer via serial port or even USB (if
> somehow possible).
On what sort of medium does the camera store images? Chances are you can
get a reader or adapter for it. For example, if it uses compact flash
(CF) cards, you can get a CF-to-PCMCIA adapter, then read the media with
a PCMCIA reader. AFAIK, all digital cameras store their images using the
FAT filesystem, so there should be no trouble reading the files, once
you've got the storage medium hooked up to the computer.
--
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http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: blackbird rises at sun rise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution to install ?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:46:37 GMT
In article <mz8e5.922$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rob Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8l6gvn$7cv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Remove NOSPAM to e-mail
> > "emwafol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I have only used RedHat but i love it...easy to use and a good
homepage
> > > with lots of stuff :)
> > > If you are new to Linux you might enjoy he RPM "system" too!
> > >
> > > --Anders Folkesson
> >
> >
> > The RPM package comes with Suse 6.4 as well - which I use, mainly on
the
> > recommendation of friends - also the documentation is v. good
> >
> > --
> > Rob Sykes
>
> I second the vote on SuSE 6.4... but I have used it since 6.1. I have
> RedHat 6.1 sparc running on a Sun sparc 10, but I wouldn't install it
by
> choice on an Intel machine. Have to agree with the comment about the
*very*
> nice manual if you're still figuring things out.
>
You've forgotten to mention better hardware support, and better
installation probing.
Been using SuSE since 5.x, RH since 4.x- (RH=Junks)
With SuSE, you've to really decide what NOT to install. It comes with a
whopping 6 CDs or a DVD.
Get the DVD if you can.
> not to sidestep Linux... Solaris x86 is also a nice alternative... if
you
> have nice compatible hardware - and you can set it up like a Linux
machine
> with a bunch of GNU tools without too much work. Or... you could
always go
> for FreeBSD.
>
And OpenBSD too. :-)
Alex
> I've heard good things about Debian and Slackware... but haven't used
them
> personally.
>
>
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From: blackbird rises at sun rise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution to install ?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:54:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adrien Huvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Byrne wrote:
>
> > Rob Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:8l6gvn$7cv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Remove NOSPAM to e-mail
> > > "emwafol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > I have only used RedHat but i love it...easy to use and a good
homepage
> > > > with lots of stuff :)
> > > > If you are new to Linux you might enjoy he RPM "system" too!
> > > >
> > > > --Anders Folkesson
> > >
> > >
> > > The RPM package comes with Suse 6.4 as well - which I use, mainly
on the
> > > recommendation of friends - also the documentation is v. good
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rob Sykes
> >
> > I second the vote on SuSE 6.4... but I have used it since 6.1. I
have
> > RedHat 6.1 sparc running on a Sun sparc 10, but I wouldn't install
it by
> > choice on an Intel machine. Have to agree with the comment about
the *very*
> > nice manual if you're still figuring things out.
> >
> > not to sidestep Linux... Solaris x86 is also a nice alternative...
if you
> > have nice compatible hardware - and you can set it up like a Linux
machine
> > with a bunch of GNU tools without too much work. Or... you could
always go
> > for FreeBSD.
> >
> > I've heard good things about Debian and Slackware... but haven't
used them
> > personally.
>
> FreeBSD is great and really easy to set up, and is compatible with
Linux ELF
> binaries if you decide so.
> There's also a useful handbook online, and the ports system is great
(especially
> with a permanent internet connection).
Yes,
With OpenBSD and FreeBSD. You can installed all the basic stuff, and
have the whole ports tar ball in your machine, via FTP install (for
OpenBSD , you need only a single boot floppy) in around 30 minutes with
DSL. And less if you have the CDs.
Both OpenBSD and FreeBSD/BSDi are great stuff.
Too bad OpenBSD doesn't have SMP supports yet.
Alex.
> If only talking about linux I'd say Slackware is fine.
> RPM-based distribs don't even deserve a look.
>
> --
> - Un arbre c'est pas forcément connexe,
> il peut y avoir des feuilles mortes!
> - Oui, mais les feuilles mortes, tu les laisses tomber...
>
>
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear ethernet problem
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:30:27 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Avallone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just recently bought a Netgear FA311 Ethernet card, installed it in my
> system (RedHat6.1,P166,64MB RAM,kernel 2.2.15). I bought it because it
> said that it supported Linux on the box (it does, I've all ready talked
> to the company, all they told me was what driver to use).
>
> So anyway, I've compiled the tulip driver into my kernel (I got the
> latest version from www.scyld.com/network like Netgear told me to), and
> it doesn't get detected. I've been up and down the Ethernet-HOWTO, it
> doesn't really help. Windows95 (my system's a dual boot) found the card
> with no problem and reports that it's on IRQ 9 (so does my BIOS), and
> the IO range is E400-E4FF (nothing is using this, I checked
> /proc/ioports). The BIOS lists it after POST as Bus number 0, Device
> number 9, Function number 0, VendorID 100B, DeviceID 0020, and IRQ 9. It
> also shows up in /proc/pci, if that helps with the problem. From the
> looks of it, the only thing that can't find it is the tulip driver!
Have you checked that the pci-scan module that latest tulip driver
needs is getting loaded?
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two weird problems - 2: Memory
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:05:36 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skjöldebrand) writes:
>
>> When ever I boot my machine (Dell 700 Mhz P3 128 MB RAM) and start up
>> X I get a utilization of about 60 MB RAM. Which I can live
>> with. However after running and shutting down some apps (Netscape,
>> Xemacs, rocksndiamonds) I am at a memory utilization of 100+ MB
>> RAM. It would seem to me that the process are not returning memory to
>> the system when they are ended (in normal fashion).
Lots of programs fail to give back memory they use both during their time
running and at the end. Fortunately unix systems including Linux do a very
good job of tidying up after programs which have died which includes
reclaiming all the memory the program was using. The only exception to this
is shared memory segments - you can check if your program is leaving a big
shared memory segment behind with the ipcs command.
> A lot of OSes with proper VMM systems work like this. Probably what
> is happening is that your daemons are all getting swapped out of
> memory. Then, when your running programs terminate, the cache grows
> to use up most of your physical memory.
Indeed a properly running Linux system will almost all of the physical memory
almost all the time. Whatever isn't being used by a program directy will be used
for disk cache.
>> This results in bad performance in graphics intensive apps like
>> Rocks and Diamonds - you really get seasick. Scrolling is "chopped"
>> (and bits of graphics are not updated correctly) while the machine is
>> so fast it moves the character along the screen at a fast tempo. (You
>> get the picture ...).
Well lack of available physical ram can causes exreme slowness of many
things if there is so little to go round that something ends up paging
excessively (the OS keeps having to move bits of the process between
memory and disk to make room). On a 128Mb machine you have to load it
up to the hilt before this occurs - Linuxes memory management is good and
128MB of RAM is more than plenty for most things.
One thing I would check though is that programs you were running and think
have gone have actually died. Netscape is a favurite for this - you tell it to
quit, if disappears from the screen, but a quick check with 'ps' show that it is
still running in the background with loads of memory still allocated. Netscape
does do some cleanup after the user-visible windows have all been closed but
this should only take a few seconds - any longer then try killing the process with
the kill command.
> Well... not really. If graphics are not being updated correctly, the
> problem has nothing to do with memory management. (Unless the program
> has some hairy code to time out whenever it has to wait for a page, in
> which case you should be getting good framerates and bad graphics -
> not bad framerates and bad graphics.)
Code to detect processor and maybe graphics card performance and adjust
the level of graphics detail to match seems quite common in games, but I cannot
see how one would set timeout around a pagein that results from trying to access
a paged out page.
>> How do I make the system return memory as it should?
>
> What version of Linux are you using? As a rule, Linux doesn't leak
> memory, not to the extent required to cause the performance you
> describe. If you're running a bleeding-edge experimental kernel, my
> answer is going to be to use a stable kernel (2.2.x) or wait until
> 2.4.0 is stable. (It's still pre-release, isn't it?)
Try the humble 'memstat' command -it shows you what program is using how
much memory so you can see what is using the most. You may find it is something
you thought had died in which case the kill command could prove useful (but don't
kill system daemons if you don't know what they do).
See also the 'top' command to see what is using how much of the CPU.
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