[Gllug] back on the linux front

[Gavin White]

You could get an idea of what's using your RAM with:

ps -eo size,pid,user,cmd |sort -n

Regards,

Gavin

On 4/13/07, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, - Tethys wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. Odd. For me, just firefox alone is just about enough to make a
> > 512MB box swap, regardless of which desktop environment you're using.
> > And that's with prefetching disabled, too. So adding a memory hungry
> > desktop into the mix pretty much guarantees a thrashing disk.
>
> Are you sure you don't have a problem with your RAM or do you have lots of
> extra processes running?
>
> 512M is an enormous amount of RAM.
>
> Jason
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