Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:15:17 -0800, Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [expert] garbage collection ?: >LOL :) Yeah, you're bringing the pizza, right? :) Sure, if you take care of the beer & whiskey, no sweat.

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:22, Dick Gevers wrote: > Okay. Is this a poker game? LOL :) Yeah, you're bringing the pizza, right? :) > Running [EMAIL PROTECTED] niced at -5 'Nice' sets the schedule priority - ok, what does that mean? How does that affect your performance both overall and for the sp

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:35:46 -0800, Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [expert] garbage collection ?: >Ok, now I'm seeing what you guys are saying. I did cat /proc/meminfo >and got similar results. Then I started vmwa

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:43:06 +, elPunishar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [expert] garbage collection ?: >what i meant was: the process of using up all avalable memory is much >slower than on windows. >the machine runs a LOT

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:36, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > > > Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem > > > > and none of my swap - I've been running my compu

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem > > > and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've > > > got a few apps open. Why would

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: > > Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem > > and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've > > got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal? > > well, it's normal for m

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:50, Michael Holt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:35, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: > > > hi everybody, > > > > > > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be > > > okay since i'm running a lot of

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:35, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: > > hi everybody, > > > > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be > > okay since i'm running a lot of programs. > > BUT it doesn't come down again even when i clos

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: > hi everybody, > > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be > okay since i'm running a lot of programs. > BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... memory use > just grows and grows (slow b

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:31 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:08 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > > I have read about some problems when using more than 768 Mb > > ram and the advise has always been passing "mem=860" at the > > lilo prompt or in lilo.conf. > > Or use the Enterpr

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:08 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > I have read about some problems when using more than 768 Mb ram and the > advise has always been passing "mem=860" at the lilo prompt or in > lilo.conf. Or use the Enterprise kernel. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a boo

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 11:43 am, elPunishar wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: > > > hi everybody, > > > > > > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, > > > which may be okay since i'm running a l

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:43, elPunishar wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: > > > hi everybody, > > > > > > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, > > > which may be okay since i'm running a lot o

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread elPunishar
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: > > hi everybody, > > > > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, > > which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. > > BUT it doesn't come down again even when i

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 9:30 am, elPunishar wrote: > hi everybody, > > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, > which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. > BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... > memory use just grows and grows (slow b

[expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread elPunishar
hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... memory use just grows and grows (slow but steady), then beginns to fill up the swap space... i h