Re: [newbie] Physical memory is to high.

[Steven Nelson]

I will try to reply to the email the best I can. I thought the disk cache 
and the physical memory did not work together. If they do that would take up 
alot of space. There is still a problem though. The computer has 512 mb of 
memory and almost all of it is being used. Alot of programs are using 20mb 
to run. That is to much. Is there a way to fix the problem? I cannot get the 
copies of the programs because the terminal will not copy and paste and the 
when I try to open lilo.conf (not sure I am trying to open right) it states 
permision denied.
                                                                            
            From,
                                                                            
              Steven

From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Physical memory is to high.
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:08:54 +0000
On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:43, et wrote:
> > > >On Sunday 28 December 2003 08:39, Steven Nelson wrote:
> > > > > The computer states that I am using, physical memory is to
> > > > > high. I
> > > >
> > > >Steven, there are two issues here.  First, when you had 1024MB
> > > > RAM installed you should have been using the Enterprise
> > > > kernel - built to correctly handle ram over around 850MB
> > > >
> > > >Second - linux handles memory very differently from windows,
> > > > which tends to cause panic in newbies - I remember the
> > > > feeling :-)  In fact it uses every scrap of memory available
> > > > to it as and whenit needs it. It is much better than windows
> > > > though in detecting the need to let go of something when it
> > > > needs to make space.
> > > >
> > > >Although it looks alarming I have never heard of anyone
> > > > running into actual difficulty through memory use, assuming
> > > > that they had enough installed to get a system running :-)
> > > >
> > > >HTH
> > > >
> > > >Anne
> > > >--
> >
> > Run top and copy/paste the summary lines at the top of the page.
> >
> > Anne
>
> also copy and paste the section from your /etc/lilo.conf that is
> the 'stanza' you are booting from.
> you can also find memtester and memtest86 on the cdroms
As an example, Steven, compare the two sets below, first soon after I
had re-booted (changed kernel) and then 3 hours later.
top - 10:48:28 up 22 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.17
Tasks:  94 total,   2 running,  92 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):   5.6% user,   3.9% system,   0.0% nice,  90.5% idle
Mem:    511216k total,   317328k used,   193888k free,    16640k
buffers
Swap:   771040k total,        0k used,   771040k free,   156144k
cached


top - 14:05:39 up  3:39,  3 users,  load average: 0.85, 0.47, 0.26
Tasks:  99 total,   2 running,  97 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  93.4% user,   6.6% system,   0.0% nice,   0.0% idle
Mem:    511216k total,   506216k used,     5000k free,     7428k
buffers
Swap:   771040k total,     5456k used,   765584k free,   304532k
cached
Anne
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