Ok...its been running ok so far this afternoon. Even when using
Gnome/sawfish. guess i'll keep an eye on things.
thanks again
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, FLYNN, Steve wrote:
>It appears to be fine - I've only just upgraded to 8.0 last week, and I
>spend some of my time at work using Dynix machines, which don't run X at
>all, and the 37 meg seemed a bit high. However, from other people's posts,
>it appears to be fine.
>
>I picked the RAM out mainly because of the 0k of memory being shared. I'd
>expect to see at least *some* memory shared, even if it were only a few
>libraries...
>
>Mem: 125600K av, 62400K used, 63200K free, 0K shrd, 892K
>buff
>Swap: 265032K av, 52372K used, 212660K free 29892K
>cached
>
>Steve Flynn
>NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Weaver [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] kapm-idled????
>
> so, are you saying that the amount of RAM that X is using is ok? or
>is
> there something amiss here with the amount that it's using?
>
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> "Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions."
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>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Alexander poslavsky wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
> >Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> [kapm-idled]
> >
> >Your poor 266 cpu is thanking you!
> >kapm-idled is a kernel daemon that constantly sends idle calls to
>your cpu. On
> >laptops, making the idle call actually puts the cpu into a state
>where it
> >saves more power. It doesn't hurt your cpu, but rather, is by
>design. Just for
> >reference, kapm-idled stands for:
> >K(ernel) A(dvanced) P(ower) M(anagement) Idle D(aemon)
> >Its also worthy to note that kernel threads and processes can't be
>killed from
> >userland.
> >(From some list)
> >
> >"FLYNN, Steve" wrote:
> >Also, I notice that X seems to consuming a hell of a lot of ram on
>your
> >machine - I don't have an Mandrake 8.0 machine here at work, to
>check but
> >I'm sure my box with 256 meg doesn't have 37M sucked up by X!
> >
> >Yes it does, sometimes even more (I've got 256) top:
> >1651 root 18 0 51692 50M 2364 R 2.9 20.2 2:19 X
> >
> >ah, now I'm not a lurker anymore.
> >
> >
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