On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Aravindhan Krishnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed fc9 on my PC (1GB RAM). I found that the memory usage
> increases gradually, even if I don't run any applications. At one point of
> time the memory usage reaches 990 MB and the system hangs when I start any
> application.
>
> [aravind...@localhost ~]$ free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1000 588 411 0 14 209
> -/+ buffers/cache: 364 635
> Swap: 1027 0 1027
>
> Just before 5 min, used memory was 515 MB .!!!
>
> Any suggestions to get over this?
>
Use Gentoo Linux or openSUSE Linux 11.1
Just to give you an idea of my machine Gentoo Linux run-time
characteristics, here are the details:
sa...@linux-speed:~ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2016 1789 227 0 86 1348
-/+ buffers/cache: 354 1662
Swap: 964 0 964
I'm running KDE 3.5.9 with all KDE applications + firefox + vim
+ openoffice 2.4.2.
sa...@linux-speed:~ $ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
8139too 21504 0
bcm43xx 118504 0
8139cp 18432 0
snd_hda_intel 283296 0
snd_pcm 65160 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 17668 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 7688 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 6532 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 42500 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
ieee80211softmac 28032 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 43372 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 4224 1 ieee80211
soundcore 5472 1 snd
Many of us as users and all of engineering team uses one of
these distros and we can help you with issues related to either
Gentoo and openSUSE.
Let me know, if you want the DVD's shipped.
thanks
Saifi.
