Re: no memory

[mike list <roscoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Williams wrote:

> 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).

Interesting observation, I have only 48megs of RAM, I'm running all the common
internet services except news have FVWM2 and Netscape open and I have over 4Megs
sitting
(they also serve who stand and wait). I realize that I'm not crankin' up the hits
on those services,
but just having them running, from your explanation it sounds like I should be
floating a lot less
megs than that. I do have 16 megs of swap, but like the guy says that ain't sh**.
Any explanation for this
(apparently) better than average scenario. Oh yeah I'm running 2.2.12.

-Mike List

BTW has anyone been keeping tabs on the duel between crack.linuxppc.org and
windows2000test.com?
I'm sure I don't have a credible shot at cracking either one, but even though  the
MS team's website says
ftp is running it won't even respond, much less let me logon, it just times out.
Does anyone have any idea
why that might be?Haven't tried the linuxppc machine I just wanted to see what joe
user gets from a supertweaked NT box.
I mean win2K.