[newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread J. David Boyd
So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the verbose startup report

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
J. David Boyd wrote: So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything looks great. I press ESC to see the

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:15, J. David Boyd wrote: So, last night, after putting in my new memory (thanks all, for the responses. Alleviated my worries about swap space size), I reboot my machine. Front screen and CMOS report ~768M of memory. LILO starts up, I choose Linux, everything

Re: [newbie] Memory wierdness in X? (Was: Increasing swap partition size in 10.0)

2005-01-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Derek Jennings wrote: No you do not need to change any settings for 768M. If you had 1 M of memory you would need to use a different kernel to address the high memory, but you could still use the standard kernel. It would simply not see the high memory. silly mode on 1 M of memory? I don't

[newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server.  As time passes the available memory steadily goes down.  For example: I rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free memory.  Now KDE System Guard tells me it has ~50 MB of free

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:03 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server.  As time passes the available memory steadily goes down.  For example: I rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Q.H. Wang
Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns or hangs. I like this one. Some times ago I bought a 512 MB memory chip for my

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote: Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns or hangs. I like this one. Some

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:07:23 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 19:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote: Yeah - some folks try to assign their understanding of how *nix uses it's memory to that of how MSDOS/MS Windows uses it's memory - two different dogs altogether. I remember being entirely

[newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the ammount of free memory goes down, at roughly 3MB/hour.

Re: [newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?

2004-11-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the ammount of free memory goes down, at

Re: [newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?

2004-11-10 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 05:36, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the

[newbie] Memory card reader shows carbage

2004-05-17 Thread John Zoetebier
I have a USB cardreader which is mounted automatically on Mandrake 9.2 as /mnt/hd This happens if I plug in the card reader with a multi-media card in it. However when I open de mount I see the card reader reading, red light is flashing, and see many entries with just carbage. When I use the

[newbie] Memory problem when installing from HD

2004-01-19 Thread Moshe Caspi
I am trying to install version 9.2 using the HD (hd.img). I have 64MB of RAM. When I tell the installer on the where to find the files I get the message:you need more memory to perform an installation from a Windows partition. Looking at the log says:ramdisk is not possible due to low mem!. The

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Terry Sheltra
I stand corrected. I knew everyone would set me straight :-) Thanks to all who set me back on the path of righteousness! ;-) Terry Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:50 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: If I recall correctly, you need to

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 25 2003 06:43 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Pretty soon all the PCs and laptops will need to have more than 1GB of RAM. What is happening here is probably an early signal for the kernel developers to revamp memory management. Seedkum The linux-kernel people are

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux performance optimized kernels for them. IIRC, the kernels were ready before the systems were. OTOH, before you'll see 64

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux performance optimized kernels for them. IIRC, the kernels

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread g
Fred Schroeder wrote: Thanks for all of the replys, guess I will try to roll my own, sure hope I don't screw this up!! you will seldom screw up if you always back up before you install or modify anything that is working. 'things' will screw up enough on their own. peace out. tc,hago. g . --

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:33 pm, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:50 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: If I recall correctly, you need to purchase the server version of Mandrake. That version will allow memory to be used higher than 1 GB. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will be

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:19:29 +: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:50 pm, Paul wrote: * When booting, Linux does not see all physically installed memory: e.g. you have 196 megs of RAM and linux only 'sees' 64Megs. As root, you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the line

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:11 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:19:29 +: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:50 pm, Paul wrote: * When booting, Linux does not see all physically installed memory: e.g. you have 196 megs of RAM and linux only 'sees' 64Megs. As root, you

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Sharrea
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:50, Paul wrote: In reply to Fred's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:44:17 -0600: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory,

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread K. Spress
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Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 10:44 am, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory,

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What

[newbie] Memory Usage - Caching

2002-05-10 Thread Kirtis B
I've noticed that a lot of my 64mb of memory shows up as cached when i do cat /proc/meminfo (i included the output) and i've been wondering if it's normal for linux to use up so much memory. Since i have a limited supply i'd like to have as much free as possible. So my questions are: is it

[newbie] Memory test.

2002-04-08 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, How do you run the memory test that comes with the CDs? Could not install more than a minimal LM 8.2. No qui. Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Memory test.

2002-04-08 Thread civileme
Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, How do you run the memory test that comes with the CDs? Could not install more than a minimal LM 8.2. No qui. Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Memory test.

2002-04-08 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Lun 08 Abr 2002 20:03, escribió: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, How do you run the memory test that comes with the CDs? Could not install more than a minimal LM 8.2. No qui. Thanks, Seedkum Start with a

[newbie] memory problem with openoffice.org

2002-03-30 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have installed openoffice.org in mdk 8.1. Before starting it the free was as follows. [root@localhost lvgandhi]# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:254528 148648 105880128 4372 71012 -/+ buffers/cache:

Re: [newbie] memory problem with openoffice.org

2002-03-30 Thread dfox
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1017501743-19779-347 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have installed openoffice.org in mdk 8.1. Before starting it the free was as follows. [root@localhost lvgandhi]# free

Re: SV: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-19 Thread ed tharp
in performance. Good Luck /Joacim -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Mario Michael da Costa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 15 februari 2002 05:37 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: [newbie] Memory hmmm, 96 megs is a lot of RAM IMHO, having more RAM won't hurt, but is the type

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-15 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Memory Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs

SV: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-15 Thread Joacim Wängdahl
PC66 to PC100) made a huge increase in performance. Good Luck /Joacim -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Mario Michael da Costa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 15 februari 2002 05:37 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: [newbie] Memory hmmm, 96 megs is a lot of RAM IMHO, having

Re: SV: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-15 Thread secfoc
: Mario Michael da Costa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 15 februari 2002 05:37 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ämne: Re: [newbie] Memory hmmm, 96 megs is a lot of RAM IMHO, having more RAM won't hurt, but is the type of RAM that you want available ? with the 200 mmx systems, the SDRAM has

[newbie] Memory(Again)

2002-02-15 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Thanks very much for your input and suggestions. Since memory is inexpensive right now I am leaning towards increasing it. I have a program that asks for 256 megs of ram. It is a SAP program. My hard drive is new anyway and it is possible I may decide to upgrade the cpu in the

RE: [newbie] Memory(Again)

2002-02-15 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Memory(Again) since all four slots are 72 pin It would seem reasonable that the best choice would be to replace the two 16mb modules with 32mb SIMM EDO. SEE: http://192.216.185.10/mwave/ProdMR-MW.hmx?UID=CN%2D1121954==MR=%3Cb%3EMemory+%2D+Mwave%3C%2Fb%3E=ProdMR-MW.hmx

Re: [newbie] Memory(Again)

2002-02-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:41, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Thanks very much for your input and suggestions. Since memory is inexpensive right now I am leaning towards increasing it. I have a program that asks for 256 megs of ram. It is a SAP program. My hard drive is new anyway and it is

Re: [newbie] Memory(Again)

2002-02-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Marcia wrote: Thanks very much for your input and suggestions. Since memory is inexpensive right now I am leaning towards increasing it. I have a program that asks for 256 megs of ram. It is a SAP program. My hard drive is new anyway and it is possible I may decide to upgrade the cpu in the

Re: [newbie] Memory(Again)

2002-02-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:41:03 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Thanks very much for your input and suggestions. Since memory is inexpensive right now I am leaning towards increasing it. I have a program that asks for 256 megs of ram. It is a SAP program. My hard drive is

[newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Mark Weaver
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:26:50 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Afonso
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Marcia wrote: %_Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? run top if you are doing a lot of

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Randy Kramer
Marcia wrote: I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? No, IME, additional RAM is often more significant than increased processor speed in influencing the

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread civileme
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Roy
PM Subject: [newbie] Memory Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread dfox
I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? It depends on what you really want to do, and how fast you feel your existing system should be. Case in point -

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Randy Kramer
dfox wrote: I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? It depends on what you really want to do, and how fast you feel your existing system should be.

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread mike
I had a 200 with 256mg of ram and it ran quite speedily. It was faster than my amd 400 running windows 98se. The Hard drive will need to be fast too, really all the hardware will need to be as fast as possible to get the best speed out of the system. an old very slow HD, or Old Pc66 ram even if

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello Marcia, Friday, February 15, 2002, 6:26:50 AM, you wrote: M Dear All, M Happy Valentine's Day. M I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would M like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I M do not upgrade the cpu? M

Re: [newbie] Memory Management

2002-02-10 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dom 10 Feb 2002 02:28, Tonton va escriure: I always encounter out of memory in using Linux Mandrake, I can't open different programs simultaneously, my system always hang up and I have nothing to do but to press the reset button. What should I do? Here's my system specs. P-III 600 MHz

[newbie] Memory Management

2002-02-09 Thread Tonton
I always encounter out of memory in using Linux Mandrake, I can't open different programs simultaneously, my system always hang up and I have nothing to do but to press the reset button. What should I do? Here's my system specs. P-III 600 MHz 17 GB Hard disk where I partition my hard drive

Re: [newbie] Memory Management

2002-02-09 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:28:08 +0800 Tonton [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: I always encounter out of memory in using Linux Mandrake, I can't open different programs simultaneously, my system always hang up and I have nothing to do but to press the reset button. What should I do?

RE: [newbie] Memory Management

2002-02-09 Thread FLYNN, Steve
, February 10, 2002 1:28 AM To: NEWBIE Subject:[newbie] Memory Management I always encounter out of memory in using Linux Mandrake, I can't open different programs simultaneously, my system always hang up and I have nothing to do but to press the reset button. What

[newbie] Memory Problem?

2001-12-16 Thread Larry Varney
I've got Mandrake 8.0 on my system right now (but I'm writing this from Windows, for reasons that will be made clear). My system, an Athlon 950 from Gateway, came with 128 Megs of RAM. Everything installed and ran fine. So, of course, I had to change things. I added 256 Megs of RAM. It's not

Re: [newbie] Memory Problem?

2001-12-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 16 December 2001 21:31, you wrote: I've got Mandrake 8.0 on my system right now (but I'm writing this from Windows, for reasons that will be made clear). My system, an Athlon 950 from Gateway, came with 128 Megs of RAM. Everything installed and ran fine. So, of course, I had to

Re: [newbie] Memory Problem?

2001-12-16 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Domingo 16 Diciembre 2001 23:31, escribió: I've got Mandrake 8.0 on my system right now (but I'm writing this from Windows, for reasons that will be made clear). My system, an Athlon 950 from Gateway, came with 128 Megs of RAM. Everything installed and ran fine. So, of course, I had to

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-04 Thread meta
I think so, check all the service u run. I just use 128Mb, never got like what u got. I monitor my memory used by gkrellm and open bluefish, opera, netscape, xmms, yahoo messenger, prozilla download manager, audio galaxy satellite, and still works fine, with not that much of using memory as u

[newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any info on the possibility at kde.org. When I first turn on the computer, KDE is using about 80MB, just now it was using 250MB (ouch!). I got those two numbers from gtop. The memory usage builds up slowly over time. I just

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) On Monday 03 December 2001 04:08, you wrote: I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
On Monday 03 December 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me directly, I had about 70MB

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux which will prevent memory leaks -- it comes down to care

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak (this ain't your win 95 box) I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Richard Wenninger
yes.. but when that process terminates... the memory should be returned to the system, right? in which case... the OS never lost track of it. On Monday 03 December 2001 12:59 pm, you wrote: On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: Ed Tharp wrote: this has been gone into for

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Richard Wenninger wrote: yes.. but when that process terminates... the memory should be returned to the system, right? in which case... the OS never lost track of it. Maybe there are different levels of memory leak? In many cases after you shut down a Windows program which continued to use

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 03 December 2001 15:47, you wrote: As I understand it a leak is returned to the OS after the program finishes. The problem with leaks is they can cause problems while the program is running. There were problems with different versions of windows, where the memory was NOT

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Ed Tharp wrote: well now... i guess it depends on your dafinition (spelled the way i wanted) of what is a memory leak. i would have bet that was abiword cacheing the documentsand I have noticed the same behaivior with Adobe Photoshop. it does make re-opening the same file somewhat quicker in

Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-16 Thread civileme
On Sunday 16 September 2001 04:59, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 21:41, Lin wrote: hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of 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

RE: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
is not mounted anywhere. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Lin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 2:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] memory buffering and disk

Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-16 Thread Lin
I am not sure where I did wrong... I usually use customized install option choosing developement settings. I let it install with most of the packages except games at the package selection prompt. At the video settings I choose the normal 16 color with 600 * 800 without 3D acceleration. I

Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-16 Thread David E. Fox
packages except games at the package selection prompt. At the video settings I choose the normal 16 color with 600 * 800 without 3D acceleration. If you have the resources (i.e., a modern video card with sufficient (2 meg) video memory, you really should pick a higher resolution. X (and

[newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-15 Thread Lin
hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of 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

Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 21:41, Lin wrote: hi, ever since I upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 I noticed the increase use of 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

Re: [newbie] memory buffering and disk defragmenter

2001-09-15 Thread David E. Fox
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

Re: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-22 Thread David E.Fox
On Monday 09 July 2001 08:10, you wrote: Would the amount of swap in use be a good benchmark to judge whether your system would benefit from more RAM? I mean, if in normal use you don't use any swap, then you have a very sufficient amount of RAM. Not necessarily. I have, for example, 256

Re: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
GNU/Linux uses spare RAM to cache your hard drive, the slowest part of any system. Generally, the more RAM you have the better, since you'll have a larger cache. However, I believe the law of diminishing returns would begin to kick in well before the 1300MB mark. This, of course depends on

Re: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-09 Thread Dan LaBine
I'm running a Gig of Ram in my Play-Station, and the only advantage is that OpenOffice opens right smartly! Other than that, everything runs normally. Dan On July 9, 2001 09:03 am, you wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:54 pm, Anguo wrote: I just bought a new box and insisted on having

RE: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-09 Thread TinyHoffman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anguo Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 23:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Memory use ¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 1 ¬P´Á¤é 23:01¡Acivileme ¼g¹D: linux makes an effort to keep almost all memory in use all

[newbie] Memory use

2001-07-08 Thread Anguo
¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 1 ¬P´Á¤é 23:01¡Acivileme ¼g¹D: linux makes an effort to keep almost all memory in use all the time (figuring unused memory is wasted memory), so it often finds memory errors right away that windows would totally miss. Civileme Oh! You just replied a question I didn't ask! :-)

[newbie] Memory setting

2001-06-14 Thread Szakacs Gyorgy
Hi! I have 192M memory in my computer but the linux can see only 64M. How can I solve this problem? As far as I know I have to edit the lilo.conf file, but I need more precise information about it 'cause I really a begginer! Thanx in advance - Szaky -

[newbie] Memory Miss reported and shutdownd command

2001-01-28 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi folks, I have become frustrated again. I had to reinstall 7.2 after a power outage and the UPS didn't last long enough so Anyway now that I have reinstalled and upgraded KDE to 2.1 beta 1 I have the old problem of showing only 64 M of memory on boot up and in control panel. I went

Re: [newbie] Memory Miss reported and shutdownd command

2001-01-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dennis Myers wrote: Hi folks, I have become frustrated again. I had to reinstall 7.2 after a power outage and the UPS didn't last long enough so Anyway now that I have reinstalled and upgraded KDE to 2.1 beta 1 I have the old problem of showing only 64 M of memory on boot up and in

Re: [newbie] Memory Miss reported and shutdownd command

2001-01-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:41:07 +,Dennis wrote: showing only 64 M of memory on boot up and in control panel. I went into lilo and did the append="mem=256" and still no change. The MoBo shows the correct amount of memory on boot -- Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:20:42 I

[newbie] Memory Question

2001-01-22 Thread surya
I have ML7.2 installed on my machine. I have about 128MB of RAM. After I log in if I see the mem occupancy using either Hard Drake or xsysinfo or one of the other X-utils, I see that only about 4-12 Megs appear to be free. Consequently the machine is horribly slow. Agreed that I am doing this

Re: [newbie] Memory Question

2001-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 22 January 2001 08:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ML7.2 installed on my machine. I have about 128MB of RAM. After I log in if I see the mem occupancy using either Hard Drake or xsysinfo or one of the other X-utils, I see that only about 4-12 Megs appear to be free.

RE: [newbie] Memory Question

2001-01-22 Thread Chandrashekar Subramanian
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Memory Question On Monday 22 January 2001 08:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ML7.2 installed on my machine. I have about 128MB of RAM. After

Re: [[newbie] memory Size]

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Michael (Nozy) Falzon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of ram ) and she showing up as 64 == Edit /etc/lilo.conf There should be an append line. Make it read: append="mem=256M" HTH, Mike "Many loads of

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Thread Joseph Red
21, 2000 1:27 AM Subject: [newbie] memory Size Hi All How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of ram ) and she showing up as 64 Michael Falzon Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs +61 3 93314369 BBs and Fax +61 3 93314368 BBs +61409967695Help Desk 2

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Thread Chris Slater-Walker
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 7:27 AM Subject: [newbie] memory Size Hi All How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of ram ) and she showing up as 64 Michael Falzon Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs +61 3 93314369 BBs and Fax +61

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Thread Paul
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Joseph Red wrote: Hmm, in LILO I think you can pass it MEM=256, but I don't think 7.2 uses LILO. I would look into the boot loader options, though. Hi All How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of ram ) and she showing up as 64 The gory

Re: [newbie] memory Size

2000-12-21 Thread tweeter
On install, you should have specified how much mem you had, but if you didn't, go into drakconf and go into tools for booting, and from there go to configure LILO/GRUB then click the kernel you load on a normal bootup. And in the append box type mem=256M and make sure its the first one in the

[newbie] memory Size

2000-12-20 Thread Michael (Nozy) Falzon
Hi All How do i fix the memory size on a mandrak 7.2 ( i have 256mg of ram ) and she showing up as 64 Michael Falzon Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs +61 3 93314369 BBs and Fax +61 3 93314368 BBs +61409967695Help Desk 24/7 http://mozysswamp.yi.org telnet://mozysswamp.yi.org

Re: [newbie] Memory (was re-booting)

2000-09-26 Thread Paul
2000-09-26. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the help on my rebooting during install and during use of 7.0. I think I have tracked down *what* the problem is, so if you could offer some pointers on how to fix it :) The problem seems to be lack of memory.. I have 128meg

[newbie] memory and graphics problems

2000-09-17 Thread adam sheridan
i have mandrake 7.0 and i have 160mb of ram and a riva tnt2 m64 graphics card: Now, can anyone tell me how to get my system to notice i have 160 mb of ram 1. i installed it with linux4win so i dont think there is a lilo.conf file i haven't found it yet! 2. i cant upgrade my version of xfree86 to

Re: [newbie] Memory detection problem

2000-08-11 Thread Philip Trauring
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and then ran the helixcode gnome installer. Everything seems to be working fine, expect that neither DrakConf nor RPMDrak will run. On a related note I tried to install OpenSSH (which I downloaded from one of the mandrake mirrors) but I'm told that RPMLIB is

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