I ran " $ free" and saw that I was heavily into my swap, to the tune of
around 227 M. I switched to Gnome and everything is running much
faster. I've been monitoring my memory / swap usage, and the most swap
I've used in Gnome is about 40M running Moz 0.8. That program eats up
buffer / cache too.
The thing that's really weird, is a buddy of mine is using 7.2 and KDE
on a 200 PI with 64M and his system runs fine. I think somehow I must
have sprung a memory leak or something. Oh well, I'm actually starting
to like Gnome a lot. It's much more stable than it was a couple of
years ago.
Thanks,
Michael
Glen Leinweber wrote:
> Michael,
> This is a guess... I wonder if 64MEG is close to the
> limit for 7.2? Perhaps 7.1 fits KDE and one or two apps
> fits into 64M without going to swap. Once you get into swap,
> things really slow down.
> I've often heard that more RAM often solves speed
> problems.
>
>
