Re: Question about memory use in Linux

2001-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:18:35PM +, Aniartia wrote: Adding a 2nd swap file on a disk seems counter productive as you've not got 2 stores and unless the swap priorty is the same will jump between then making things slower. I don't understand swap priortys but to say you can tell linux to

Question about memory use in Linux

2001-11-03 Thread David P James
My Debian Woody box has 128Mb of RAM, and a 128Mb swap partition. Anyway, one of KDE's utilities allows you to monitor how much RAM and swap memory the system is using. With Netscape Navigator and Messenger open, along with KDE (obviously) it was using about 120Mb (95%) of RAM and 12.5Mb (10%)

Re: Question about memory use in Linux

2001-11-03 Thread Aniartia
On Saturday 03 November 2001 18:52, David P James wrote: My Debian Woody box has 128Mb of RAM, and a 128Mb swap partition... ...I understand that linux uses essentially as much RAM as it can because it is there. Now, I opened up that colossal memory hog, WP9 for linux. The RAM usage shot up to

Re: Question about memory use in Linux

2001-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Aniartia (by way of Aniartia ) wrote: On Saturday 03 November 2001 18:52, David P James wrote: My Debian Woody box has 128Mb of RAM, and a 128Mb swap partition... ...I understand that linux uses essentially as much RAM as it can because it is there. Now, I opened up that colossal memory