I've been having the same problems ever since RH6.1. Right now, Top
reports X as using 31.7% of my memory and 2.6% of my CPU. If I run a WM
that is resource-intensive (such as KDE, Gnome, E, etc.), there have
been a few occasioins where my whole system just froze up on me (it
really *DOES* have a Windoze feel to it ;-) ). I have 192MB of RAM with
an AMD-K6/2-300 CPU. I'm starting to wonder if it is something wrong
with the scheduling subsystem? I ended up taking out a lot of things
that normally start at boot time, and that helped a little.
Kenny
PK Whelan wrote:
>
> Just a dumb question. Are there any utilities to clean (I should say
> "reclaim") unused memory upon execution of the utility? I have one for NT
> that actually works sometimes (other times rendering it useless). I have
> 128M in my box at home and always seems to be running still a little
> sluggish when it's been up for a while - with nothing more than an xterm
> open (but I am running kde). Top and free generally report no more than 2
> or 3 megs of free memory. <MoreBackground> AMD K6-2 300, 128M RAM, 2M
> AGP, 126M Swap </MoreBackground>. If there is some kind of memory shredder
> that can reclaim unused memory (or at least crash my system :-0 ) that
> would be worth trying. Or is there even something native to linux that
> does that (?).
> Thanks,
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