You must be talking of X window mode.
Well, your mem is not 'locked up', but what i have noticed is that Linux's
mem management uses RAM to the max. before it starts swapping out...this
sometimes creates a lot disk thrashing.
On the other hand, windoze seems to use RAM and swap concurrently. I am not
qualified enuff to comment on which architechture is better but as long as
Linux crashes considerably less than windoze, who cares ?? ;-)
I dont think u can just free up that mem with some command. Try finding
what applications are using what amt. of mem...maybe that will give u some
insight !!
ciao for now,
Amit
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Subject: Internet Questions
ok people i would be most grateful if anybody could shed some light on
this.
1)What would be the most optimum settings of MRU and MTU in the
/etc/ppp/options file.I set these to 1500 is that alright?
2)is it possible for netscape to give errroneous readings about the data
transfer speeds in the status bar?
3)in that case does the system manager give better readings with the ppp-in
and ppp-out load.i use the stripchart plotter for this.
4)When i try to use netscape messenger i get the message that the user mail
server is not setup but i have set it up in the way similar to the method i
use in messenger under win 98..why the message then?
5) and lastly when i monitor the system memory usage i always have 29 of my
32 mb of ram always in use and on an average only bout 1mb free and the
rest
is virtual memory and way i can free up some of this 29 mb that always
seems
to be locked up ?
thanks as always
Kush
