[Gllug] Laptop memory weirdness

[Walid]

why not upgrade to 2.4.10 kerenel first of all as it handles memory better !

cheers 
--- matthew at marbit.freeserve.co.uk wrote: > All,
> 
> Laptop IBM Thinkpad 570E 500MHz, 128MB, RedHat 7.1 KDE 2.1.1 Kernel 2.4.2
> 
> Under the KDE control center(sic) under Information, Memory I am using 99% of
> my Physical memory. I am sat here at the moment watching my laptop hard disk
> churn like mad at the moment and it says I have less than 1MB of Free
> Physical memory left. Not writing from the laptop BTW.
> 
> Under top: X, autorun and kdeinit are using max 1.0% CPU and max 7% MEM.
> 
> I've got 4 virtual desktops and only one window open in each, doing nothing
> at the moment. Before the laptop hung when I used ALT-TAB to go between three
> consoles on the same virtual desktop.
> 
> It gave no trouble when running nmap and tcpdump at the same time a few
> minutes ago.
> 
> For info, the Red Hat 7.1 distro was from the Linux Expo - a freebie.
> 
> Advice needed (I would like to stick with KDE and am quite getting into
> xinetd config so please don't suggest changing distro!)
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
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