Hi > My computer is running Ubuntu 5.04. > > 512 Meg RAM > > When I run Vmware, Evolution and a couple of smaller apps free indicates > all ram used and 6 meg swap with 130 meg of buffers free.
If ALL the ram was NOT being used, your system would be faulty!!! It is unix's paradigsm to use ALL the ram. 6 meg swap says a little more ram would be good, but all is very well. > So switching between Evolution, vi and vmware (so Gnome is running) > should result in no requirement for swap. (I thought) No valid conclusion may be reached, without extensive checking. > Regularly when I switch between vmware and Evolution there is a long > delay, the drive light is on for ages. Then all good, till I switch > back. Use top. This is not good. What sort of machine ie laptop doing freq throttling? > Where do I need to look to find out what the hell is going on? Ideas > appreciated. Use top, then we may have a better idea James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
