Re: [newbie] Physical memory is to high.

[Steven Nelson]

I was thinking the disk cache was on the hard drive. Are u sure it is in the 
memory? I know in alot of the Windows versions I have used there was 
settings where you could enable a cache and set the size of it. You might be 
confused or I might be but I thought when memory was not used it is waiting 
for applications to use it or for when you use the applications that would 
be already enabled and they need more memory. I didn't think applications 
should use that much of the memory. Almost all of the memory is gone because 
the applications are using it. If I run out of memory then I will not be 
able to use the computer correctly and it will freeze. Won't other 
applications need the memory? The swap space is not being used at all. That 
is the problem, on all of the terminals that are avaible with Mandrake 9.2 
none of them will let the left click menu appear. When I used Mandrake 9.1 
there was one terminal that had that feature, it is not with Mandrake 9.2. 
Is the Konquerer file you mentioned the same as the Lilo? Do I need to get 
both? I booted the enterprise kernel and it read the 1024mb of memory right. 
That helped with how much memory is being used, there is still around 360mb 
being used. I would think that is to much but if you are right about the 
programs using that much memory, I guess not. If it helps, the questions 
that are have are in the paragraph. Some of them do not have question marks 
at the end of them and are questions within a regular sentence. You should 
be able to understand the paragraph and what the questions are if you 
understand what is happening with the memory problem.
                                                                            
                   From,
                                                                            
                      Steven




From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Physical memory is to high.
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:15:51 +0000
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 11:51 am, Steven Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Yes they do. Where else could the disc cache be other than in memory?

> 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.

Good! If memory is not used it is wasted!

> Alot of programs are using
> 20mb to run. That is to much. Is there a way to fix the problem?
So?  Applications take as much memory as they need. Is your system running
slow? Are you using lots of swap space? If not then there is no problem.
> I cannot
> get the copies of the programs because the terminal will not copy and 
paste

Highlight with mouse to copy to clipboard. Press centre button/mouse wheel 
to
paste.

> and the when I try to open lilo.conf (not sure I am trying to open 
right)
> it states permision denied.

Do it as root.
Alt+F2 will pull up a command box. Type
kdesu konqueror
in the box to get a root copy of konqueror.
Linux is not Windows. Do not expect it be the same. Windows is rubbish at
managing memory. Linux is good at it :-)
derek

>
>              From,
>
>                Steven
>
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