Hermann,
Thanks for suggesting xosview.  I have it running now and it shows a lot
of important info in a small space.  Much more concise than system
monitor.  Great!

scott

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:03 +0100, Ichthyostega wrote:
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> > No, I am not experiencing a lot of swapping, so that's good.  I just needed 
> > a little further
> > explanation on what I was seeing.
> 
> Scott,
> 
> just a little hint: use xosview
> This little window gives you a quite good "feeling" how the memory fills up,
> as it differentiates between user memory, system memory and buffers. Normally,
> Linux increases the buffers/caches on demand and holds them, until the mem
> is otherwisely needed. Have a look at the column indicating swap usage as 
> well.
> (You can disable network and IRQ display if you aren't interested in this).
> There is a third graph showing Swap Pages in/out. Only when this graph
> indicates constant swapping activity, you really have a problem....
> 
> Hermann V.
> 
> 
> PS: all the memory and internal caches used by cinelerra apeares as "user 
> memory"
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