[expert] RAM useage

2000-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, Coming from just reading the thread about Netscape and it's dumb library using so much ram I have a question: I know that Linux uses all the ram it can take, using the unused amount for cache and buffers. So I start X, WindowMaker, some xterms, Netscape, gFTP, and after that StarOffice. Then

Re: [expert] RAM useage

2000-02-07 Thread istiqfar
I also experienced the same. I don't know how linux manage the memory, but for me, it looks like winblow$ who eat memory and never let them out again. Also, I experienced bad performance in multitasking with some disk-related activity (such as ftp, cp, mv) - even when you "ls", it tooks almost l