Chaps,
Is Mandrake 8.1 eating memory?
First I only had 128MB of ram in my AMD K6-500 Mhz system.
When I booted linux and Xhad started all of the 128 Ram was used. So It had
to swap a lot when I worked on Linux.
Today I upgraded my ram to a total of 384MB ram and a swap of 360 MB. At
first it looked like Mandrake was happy with this. But after an hour or two
more and more memory was used as it eventually began swapping to disk using
95MB of swap.
My goodness, Waht the heck is mandrake doing with all that memory, Even
wind&^s does not need that much memory.
I did not even do a lot with Mandrake. Only playing some mp3 and movies, and
trying out vmware 3.0. Here is a report of the free command.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 384488 380700 3788 2000 43288 242512
-/+ buffers/cache: 94900 289588
Swap: 361420 66824 294596
This is an extract from top -i:
30322 root 14 0 162M 161M 161M R 54.0 43.0 20:36 vmware
6303 root 18 0 1124 1124 844 R 2.7 0.2 0:01 top
6353 root 19 0 784 784 428 R 2.0 0.2 0:00 modprobe
6825 marc 9 0 5872 4888 3972 D 0.0 1.2 0:30 xmms
Eventhough VMware uses 161MB of ram it is still bizar that linux consumes
that much RAM? is there a known memory leak somewhere?
Greetings
Marc
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