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