Re: tlug: Caldera Japanese version (more comments)

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 shimpei@example.com wrote:

> PS I just ran free(1). 
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         95808      89804       6004      32008       2008      24112
> -/+ buffers/cache:      63684      32124
> Swap:        68508      54868      13640
> 
> Now I'm a bit scared. I'm not running anything right now besides KDE
> (just kwm, really; I'm too much of an command-line Luddite to bother
> with all those cute KDE utilities), Netscape, an army of kterms, and
> xemacs. How the heck does that add up to ~115MB of memory usage?

well, xemacs is taking a big chunk of that.  Netscape does too.  The thing
that scares me is that my memory/swap usage never seems to go DOWN when I
close apps.... well, a little bit.  but my swap usage almost NEVER goes
down by more than 1 or 2 MB.  Eventually my system gets so slow that I
have to completely reboot it to make it fast again, *even if I close all
my apps and restart from the same point as if I were to reboot the box*...
sometimes just shutting down X and bringing it back up helps, but not as
much as the reboot.  Is there something wrong with memory
allocation/freeing in the 2.2 kernels?  Or am I just stupid?  Or both?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Systems (UNIX) and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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