Hi
Could you please provide details? I didn't find it that much memory hog. The
memory usage was around 30-35M with couple of konquerors and gvim+kmail etc.(OK
I have 256MB on office machine so I am not bothered by buffers+cache but still
35M bare is not a hog.)
May be that's due to caching.
I sometime find the aggressive caching by OS irritating. On my home machine,
KDE1.1.2, the default memory usage is around 24MB with free 1-2MB. That means it
takes around 36-37MB in buffers and cache.
When I start netscape with around 4-5 windows, it takes another 20MB memory.
What's beyond me is why OS swaps whooping 10MB? That is a shear performance
kill. Why you need to buffer that much? And what do you buffer BTW?
Any means to slick it down? Or can't it just optimise itself as time goes?
Seriously frustrated. Is this one of the reason freebsd performs bit better
than 2.2 kernels?(BTW do read freebsd v/s2.4 comparison here.
http://www.byte.com/column/servinglinux/BYT20010130S0010. Good one..)
Bye
Shridhar
archan wrote:
> but it is stupidly memory hogging...
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> archan
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