Re: no memory

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 9,  7:05pm, Matt Anderson wrote:
> Subject: no memory
> 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!
>

Unless you are consuming swap space the system is operating normally,  UNIX
type systems typically have little or no free memory as free memory is wasted
memory.  It is used very aggresively for caching and buffering,  as anything is
memory is "more available" than something on disk.  You are out of memory only
if you are swapping,  you can monitor that by installing and running a utility
such as procinfo.  I have 256Mb of memory and after only about a half hours
work there is only a few megabytes "free".  To determine the source of the
sluggish performance requires a bit more investigation.  Your not using kernel
2.2.11 are you? (It DOES have a memory leak).