I am having this problem also at the console with nothing running I am using
60 Mb of ram. Also what command gives you that nice printout with the IRQ's
and installed devices like that?
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 1:57 AM
Subject: [newbie] Ram Usage
> > I was just testing out some new commands I learned tonight, and was
startled to see
> > that Linux is using such a large amount of ram. I was also concerned
about the
> > "please recompile me" message.
>
> I've included the output of my procinfo -a command at the end of this
message, if
> anyone is so inclined to take a look.
>
> If fact, the following example was taken during a kde session with
netscape, licq, and
> the gimp running. When I ran the command with kde closed and no programs
running, it
> reported that even more Memory was being used? ( I ran it after a reboot
if that
> matters?)
>
> On a side note, I recall someone was having trouble with Star Office. I
installed it
> today for the first time and created a step by step journal for my own
future
> reference. It seems to be running well, so if like I could mail it to
you, just drop
> me a line.
>
> Thanks In Advance,
> Ben
>
> > Linux 2.2.3-ac4-4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #1
[satori]
> > [WARNING: can't print all IRQs, please recompile me]
> > Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers
Cached
> > Mem: 63276 57716 5560 50336 1332
24424
> > Swap: 52916 3088 49828
> >
> > Bootup: Fri Apr 23 00:58:12 1999 Load average: 0.13 0.12 0.09 1/44
546
> >
> > user : 0:01:29.85 3.3% page in : 119249 disk 1: 34r
1w
> > nice : 0:00:00.00 0.0% page out: 8385
> > system: 0:00:28.76 1.0% swap in : 26 disk 3: 20882r
3799w
> > idle : 0:43:57.36 95.7% swap out: 929
> > uptime: 0:45:55.96 context : 424826
> >
> > irq 0: 275597 timer irq 9: 1 soundblaster
> > irq 1: 1022 keyboard irq 12: 18848 PS/2 Mouse
> > irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 13: 1 fpu
> > irq 5: 49665 serial irq 14: 43 ide0
> > irq 6: 3 irq 15: 260635 ide1
> >
> > Kernel Command Line:
> > BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=1601
> >
> > Modules:
> > 17 *ppp 4 *slhc 2 *nls_iso8859-1 3
*nls_cp437 11
> > *vfat 24 *fat 10 opl3 31 sb
5
> > uart401 54 sound 0 soundlow 2 *soundcore
> >
> > Character Devices: Block Devices:
> > 1 mem 10 misc 1 ramdisk
> > 2 pty 14 sound 2 fd
> > 3 ttyp 29 fb 3 ide0
> > 4 ttyS 36 netlink 9 md
> > 5 cua 128 ptm 22 ide1
> > 7 vcs 136 pts
> >
> > File Systems:
> > ext2 [proc] iso9660 [devpts]
> > vfat
> >
> >
>
>
