Not at all, in fact I'm using less memory then with 8.0. I also have 512 meg and still have 125 meg free. I have not even touch my swap file.
Gary On Wednesday 03 October 2001 17:40 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jason M. Kikta wrote: > > Is anyone else experiencing excessive memory & CPU usage with 8.1? > > Especially in the memory. I did a fresh 8.1 install and my memory is > > constantly being used while running minimal apps. I have 512MB RAM and a > > 400-some-odd-MB swap file. My monitoring apps show the physical memory as > > being completely used & about 1/2 the swap file as used. I can't seem to > > find the problem and I'm running the same things that I was under most > > previous versions & my usage before was at about 180MB of physical & no > > swap usage. Some things that are somewhat memory intensive are running > > _really_ slow, so I don't think it is a monitoring error. Weird... > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > How much of an upgrade are we talking here. I'm running 8.0 with a 2.4.9 > kernel and I get the following from top: > > Mem: 513612K av, 507264K used, 6348K free, 0K shrd, 21124K buff > Swap: 401584K av, 123772K used, 277812K free 251956K cached > > which is about the same as you I've only got about 170M of apps running > though. I seem to remember that recently there some change in the in > memory disk caching behaviour which either meant that more stuff is cached > in memory or the reporting of this mem usage is different. I wouldn't > worry about it you should find that as you keep running more an more apps > the mem use remains about the same since the amount of caching should > decrease. > > As for the cpu usage it's not the apm idle process that's chewing all the > cycles is it. If so again not to worry it's just replacing the no-ops sent > to the cpu during idle state with ops to tell it to shut down parts of the > core to save power. Maybe you didn't have this before.
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