Re: no memory

[mike list <roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Anderson wrote:

> I'm not really sure why my computer is reporting this.  I am running Red Hat 6.
>  I have 128 mb of physical ram, and a 260 mb swap file.  When I'm using Gnome
> it feels quite sluggish and reports 98% memory being used.  It clears up a
> little when I switch over to KDE, but only lowers to about 92%.  I only have
> the services running that are enabled by default.  Also this is reported at
> boot up, not after I've been running the system for a while.  What could
> possibly be hogging up my system?  I'd really like to find out because it's
> running so slow right now, and I hate booting into windows now.  Thanks for any
> help!
>
> Matt Anderson

Check  "top" and/or "ps -aux"(actually the "-" isn't necessary)
check the sizes, and also check to see if duplicate instances of certain daemons
are running.  if so kill them , or better yet kill them all and see what "free"
tells you then.
Once the boot sequence is complete, everything that is automatically loaded, ie
daemons
is in place and if you have multiple lines in your rc scripts telling them to
start, that could explain it.
KDE and GNOME together shouldn't eat that much RAM, well maybe, but I doubt it.
Another idea would be to boot up in single user mode, which doesn't start the
daemons and
check your memory usage then.  If you still have that much drain on your memory,
I'm not
sure where to look next.

HTH,
-Mike List