At 04:42 AM 2/9/00 -0600, Dan wrote [in part]:
>... I
>remembered that when i installed caldera I choose
>workstation and server packages,
>I think this may be why there where so many services running. I reinstalled
>caldera with just the home workstation package (to free
>up some space) and things
>are running a little faster, not much. I then ran free to see what it showed:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 63104 60272 2832 34276 19368 10524
>-/+ buffers/cache: 30380 32724
>Swap: 0 0 0
>
>If i am reading this right my swap file is not working, right. According to
>Partition Magic there is a swap file. Any suggestions on how to fix this.
1. To fix swap, follw these three steps:
check /etc/fstab to find out which partition is swap (actually,
also to make sure you have one)
from the command line, as root, enter "mkswap /dev/swapspace"
replacing "swapspace" with the partition name you found
in the first step
from the command line, as root, enter "swapon"
This is the quick-and-dirty solution to make sure there isn't an actual
problem with swap. The long-run solution is to include the "swapon" command
in an appropriate initialization script, but I don't know Caldera well
enough to tell you the exact place ... this part tends to vary from one
distribution to another.
2. "free" still says you are using 30 mB of memory (get this from the "used"
entry on the second line, not the first). That still seems like a lot ...
though an elaborate X setup might account for it ... especially if I am
guessing right that you re running KDE. You still want to look at "ps aux"
and see what is running that you don't need.
3. Last time, I mentioned Netscape as an app that started slowly on Linux. I
don't have firsthand experience with StarOffice, but by repute it is another
such program. I'm not familiar with karchiver.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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