On Thursday 04 October 2001 10:45 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> I've been using 2.4.10 all day and I can't see any difference from
> Mandrake 8.1's 2.4.8 kernel. The VM is just as bad as before:
>
> $ free -m
> total used free shared buffers
> cached Mem: 249 229 19 0 9
> 84 -/+ buffers/cache: 136 112
> Swap: 200 103 96
>
> As can be seen in the above "free -m" output, I am using 103MB of
> Swap even though I have 112MB of RAM free (excluding cache).
This is mine just now (everything under / is RieserFS, 2.4.10):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 500 492 8 0 61 285
-/+ buffers/cache: 146 354
Swap: 180 0 179
I've never used any /swap since some kernel MM problems in the
early 2.4.1 (IIRC) kernels. 'top <Shift+m>' (sort by mem) shows
1543 root 12 0 109M 28M 1996 S 0.1 5.7 8:12 X
only using 28 MB (objectprelink'd KDE2.2.1) as the biggest memory user.
1783 tom 18 0 22092 21M 3316 S 0.0 4.3 17:36 gqview
Gqview is running a fullscreen slideshow (48,500+ files, 8 sec ea.) as
my background on all 4 desktops is next at 21 MB. Next users of any
consequence are:
2196 tom 9 0 17660 17M 7516 S 0.0 3.4 0:00 kppp
9782 tom 9 0 15720 15M 12288 S 0.0 3.0 0:09 kmail
1793 tom 9 0 15408 15M 11292 S 0.0 3.0 0:32 kdeinit
1787 tom 9 0 11092 10M 9572 S 0.0 2.1 0:02 kdeinit
9495 tom 12 0 10636 10M 9048 R 0.5 2.0 0:02 kdeinit
1993 tom 9 0 10136 9.8M 8780 S 0.0 1.9 0:00 kdeinit
I believe any work station system with >= 128 MB ram, and getting
into swap more than just a touch or even at all, probly has hardware
and or configuration problems.
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