On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I know you will be receiving expert advice, but thought I'd pass along
> my own experiences that will suggest what you experience is normal.
>
> I've got 128 Mb RAM and run RH 7.0. If I start and continue to run too
> many piggish apps, I begin to use swap. The Linux memory model is not
> like that of OS/2, and so the use of swap not necessarily
> harmful. However, if I don't periodically close apps, or even exit the
> X Windows System, the amount of swap claimed begins to rise rather
> quickly. If a fair amount of swap gets used, I find I can no longer
> exit the X system, and if all of swap is used, my whole machine
> hangs. In either case, it requires a dirty shutdown.
Hello Haines and all.
I dont want to be persistant about saying this but, if one has this problem
then it is "normally" speaking a dirty program or application which is causing
the problem by not rereleasing used memory or eating up more and more pages of
memory the longer it stays up.
The only time i have ever had memory problems was when i used netscape 4.? now
i forgot which version but i am sure someone will be able to tell us which
version it was that had such a bad mem leak.
>
> I normally run several terminals, Emacs, an obscure file manager
> (which tends to hang onto memory and slow until I restart it), and
> Opera. I usually also run Netscape as I work on local files (not for
> Internet). There are several personal applications that will be opened
> and closed fairly regularly. Netscape seems the biggest offender,
> although if I close it before too much swap is used, I can recover all
> or nearly all hung memory, even if I immediately reopen it. Word
> Perfect is also hoggish. The applications that I normally leave open
> tend to be used simultaneously and more or less continuously.
I also run the same execpt emacs, all installed by slackware-7.1 + i run 3
virtual operating systems as well which are allocated 32Mb of ram each of my
total of 192Mb, i have 132Mb of swap space, i have never seen it exceed 50Mb
even after 50 days of uptime running all those things.
What sometimes happens is one gets very experimental and starts upgrading
things from different packages, then ones system gets very mixed up indeed and
can be the cause of this sort of problem(s), i am not saying this is Rick's
problem tho.
Really to get to the bottom of this Richardo would need to run "top" for a
while with all his apps open and simply keep an eye on which program uses the
most memory and which one keeps increasing its memory usage.
When a suspisious program is found one can look further in the /proc filesystem
at where the memory is being used kept and/or thrown away or hogged.
As a small tip for Rick. lose that Tnos for a while and use the ax25-utilits
and apps, tnos has been known to do rather naughty things with ones memory.
73's.
> --
> Haines Brown
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.hartford-hwp.com
> KB1GRM
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Regards Richard
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