Pooh Sun Tzu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap > touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. > Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to > happen.
Well, I wrote a script to check my memory usage and which processes I was running, with the intention of tracking down what was to blame. I found that I only hit swap when running bittorrent or ftp, which I routinely use to download reasonably large files (500 MB). What suprised me before I started this thread wasn't that these processes used a lot of memory, but the fact that my memory usage didn't drop when they terminated. Now I have a slightly better understanding of why this is, and I'm no longer worried about some renegade process leaking memory. Thanks again, Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
