130 meg swap in use and 96 meg RAM in use! You must be running a whole
boatload of stuff in there! I'd check in DrakConfig (or whatever it's
called - I still use Mandrake 6.5 so I've got LinuxConfig) and see which
aemons you fire up at boot time. Chances are that you start loads of httpd
tasks and stuff which you don't use.
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Ryan Drafall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 25/02/2000 13:10:36
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Subject: [newbie] hard disk thrashing and modem problem...
Hello,
After installing Mandrake7.0 perfectly yesterday and running it for
the first time, I noticed some (what seemed to be unnecessary) hard disk
thrashing. Even when no programs are running, every 3 or 4 seconds I
can hear a little thrashing from the hard disk. Is this normal? Also,
my modem will still not work. I've set up everything with linuxconf and
stuff like that, but I still get "Sorry, Modem is Busy" error. I
noticed that when I boot my 'puter to Linux, in the boot up process, it
says "BRINGING UP INTERFACE PPP0-[FAILED]". I'm using a PII 300 MHz
with 96 mb of RAM (which Linux recognizes totally), 6.4 gig, modem is a
CPI ViVa 56LC-SM ISP PnP (non-winmodem, i think). I have disabled "PnP
OS installed" option in the BIOS and I'm running a dual-boot
win98se/linux machine with LILO as my boot loader. When I check how
much of my swap partition (133 Mb) is in use, it says 130 Mb! Whereas,
when it says how much RAM is in use, it says I have 2 Mb free out of
96mb!!! Shouldn't Linux be using a lot more swap file and not as much
RAM? Thank you very much to any one who can help. Ryan.
