Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... memory use just grows and grows (slow but

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread elPunishar
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:43, elPunishar wrote: On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs.

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 11:43 am, elPunishar wrote: On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:08 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have read about some problems when using more than 768 Mb ram and the advise has always been passing mem=860 at the lilo prompt or in lilo.conf. Or use the Enterprise kernel. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book,

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:31 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:08 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have read about some problems when using more than 768 Mb ram and the advise has always been passing mem=860 at the lilo prompt or in lilo.conf. Or use the Enterprise

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... memory use just grows and grows (slow but

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:35, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:50, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:35, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs.

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal? well, it's normal for me :-)

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:36, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:43:06 +, elPunishar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] garbage collection ?: what i meant was: the process of using up all avalable memory is much slower than on windows. the machine runs a LOT faster than

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:35:46 -0800, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] garbage collection ?: Ok, now I'm seeing what you guys are saying. I did cat /proc/meminfo and got similar results. Then I started vmware+WinXP

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:22, Dick Gevers wrote: Okay. Is this a poker game? LOL :) Yeah, you're bringing the pizza, right? :) Running [EMAIL PROTECTED] niced at -5 'Nice' sets the schedule priority - ok, what does that mean? How does that affect your performance both overall and for the

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:15:17 -0800, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] garbage collection ?: LOL :) Yeah, you're bringing the pizza, right? :) Sure, if you take care of the beer whiskey, no sweat. Running [EMAIL PROTECTED