In answer to the question "how much ram should MDK be using?" -
The answer is ALL OF IT! This one comes up on a frequent basis because people are used to the way Windows does it. Windows will load up every DLL it finds in the system folder when it boots, and then loads apps into the remaining RAM. Any unused RAM is idle (wasted) If it starts to fill up the available RAM the system starts acting weird (BSOD), and so people are naturally alarmed if the RAM fills up. Linux by contrast loads nothing into RAM until it is needed. The Swap space acts as an extension to RAM so any idle process ends up in swap space where it is consuming no resources. Any RAM which is not being used for active applications/libraries is dynamically allocated as hard drive cache. This means that every time there is a disc read, there is a high probability that the data is actually resident in memory and the access time is reduced. If an application needs more RAM some of the drive cache will be written back to disc and memory is dynamically allocated. This is how a *real* operating sytem handles memory. :-) So do not worry. Having your memory 100% used is perfectly normal. The only time to worry is when an application suffers a 'memory leak' and starts using more and more memory. You will notice this when the swap space becomes more and more active, and the system will become sluggish. You can see in the monitoring apps (like KDE System Guard) how much memory is allocated to each app. derek On Monday 07 Oct 2002 2:46 am, joe wrote: > I have found that under LM 9.0 using KDE it always shows 119mb of ram > used according to gnome system monitor. This doesn't seem to change no > matter what i run. Is this an accurate measure of my used ram? > > I found that under some other window managers there will be slightly > less used (such as 110mb ) but still most of what I have. > > I am running some servers but still... > How can this be? > > I have tried to stop mandrake from running some of those servers as > services and this still didn't seem to make a difference.
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