[expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Hi all I have a problem I run 128 meg's of ram and something is chowing it all up!! I meen I have like 3 megs left!! Any Ideas? My kernel is a lean mean machine compiled myself 2.4.3 and I run kde2.1.1 Please help Stefaans

Re: [expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread Gabriel Fortuna
And yea, on Wednesday 11 April 2001 13:40, verily Stefaans Mostert doth wroteth: Stefan, also on this list, fancy meeting you here =P IIRC, you've just recompiled your kernel... Is linux actually running slowly? Linux does take alot of memory if it's not being used elsewhere. What Im

Re: [expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread William Bouterse
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:40:02 +0200 Stefaans Mostert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have a problem I run 128 meg's of ram and something is chowing it all up!! I meen I have like 3 megs left!! Any Ideas? What does "top" tell you? WH Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Gabriel Fortuna wrote: And yea, on Wednesday 11 April 2001 13:40, verily Stefaans Mostert doth wroteth: Stefan, also on this list, fancy meeting you here =P IIRC, you've just recompiled your kernel... Is linux actually running slowly? Linux does take alot of memory if it's not

Re: [expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread David E. Fox
I run 128 meg's of ram and something is chowing it all up!! I meen I have like 3 megs left!! This is not really an issue, but run top at a command line to be sure. Linux will try and use all your memory either for programs or buffers. Free memory is really wasted memory. Stefaans

Re: [expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread Ron Heron
Here's a me-too, What i noticed is the available (free) memory is nill, and I am actually using swap, were I never was before. Is it pre-allocating for streams or buffers, or do you think there is a leak? (8.0 - Beta1 - stock SMP) --- Gabriel Fortuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yea, on

Re: [expert] Mem thief

2001-04-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 01:27 pm, Ron Heron wrote: Here's a me-too, What i noticed is the available (free) memory is nill, and I am actually using swap, were I never was before. Is it pre-allocating for streams or buffers, or do you think there is a leak? (8.0 - Beta1 - stock SMP)