My system had actually slowed down considerably. I
noticed that there was really a problem when I tried
to play quake3 and it took an eon to boot up. My hard
drive was working overtime swapping trying to keep up
and my system rarely even uses swap. I think that
netscape 2.73 was the culprit because I uninstalled it
and went back to 4.7 and LO! the systems ram usage is
back down to reasonable (55-65 megs) ram usage when
the system is idle.
Dacia
--- "Oliver L. Plaine Jr."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:09:49 -0700 (PDT),Dacia wrote:
>
> >I noticed that my system was using 247 megs of ram
> >while it was just sitting there with nothing
> running
> >so I started killing processes. This freed up
> about 3
> >Megs! Usually when my system first boots up it is
> >using around 65-70 megs not 250! I tried disabling
> >some of the startup services through DrakConf. I
> then
> >rebooted. System boots, mounts file systems and
> tries
> >to start X at this point it can't start X and the
> (chopped off for space)
> ============================
> Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:35:14
>
> Hi Dacia,
>
> I think you were trying to cure a non problem, when
> you shot yourself
> in the foot with the X malfunction.
>
> memory pages much faster than swap, so Linux uses a
> lot of memory for
> this...it can manage it very well, so having it
> utilized in this
> manner is just good practice. you were not having
> any problems with
> the system bogging down? so trying to free memory
> was not the thing
> to do.
>
> I have heard things like netscape can run away and
> cram the memory.
> But if you were not experiencing some other
> slowdown, I don't think a
> well filled memory is a real problem.
>
> I have 24m ram only, and run a full MDK 6.1...so my
> 24m stays full all
> the time and most always uses swap..and it runs
> well..If I had your
> 247m I wouldn't even bother to run "top"...8-)
>
> sorry for this opinion likely, not making you feel
> any better?
> Just remember I am a dangerous newbie and probably
> don't know what I
> am talking about.
>
> Olly P
> Biloxi
>
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