> buffering under KDE, but when I do open a new program such as netscape I > eventually ran out of memory and need to use disk swap - which the buffer > really doesn't help... could anyone help me on how to disable the memory > buffering under KDE? There's no way to disable the buffering without rewriting the kernel, as it is a Linux function and has little to do with KDE. And I don't think you'd really want to. The buffers are just another memory resource, and linux will decrease the size of those buffers, turning the memory over to other processes as memory is requested -- as long as those applications aren't using the disk a lot for file reads/writes. Linux will try to balance the need for the buffers as disk usage (but non-swap disk usage) goes up and down. For instance, do a 'free' early in the morning after the nightly 'locate' jub runs, and you will likely see that your buffer usage according to 'free' is greater than 'normal'. And that's because the locate process does hit the disks pretty hard. But wait a while, or launch Netscape, and you will probably se that value go down. > > My other question is that I tend to use disk defragmenter under windows, > but after I switch over I realize I couldn't find anything like it under > KDE... could anyone also help me how to run defragmenter with Mandrake? Disk defragmentation is just not needed in Linux. > Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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