[Wolves] Progress report!!

[Mo Awkati]

Thanks guys that is really helpful. I was getting
really worried about it. You are right once the app is
loaded its lightning fast. 

Is Scribus a good app for doing greeting cards, etc??
When I check YaST it gives three different versions of
Scribus: one listed as Scribus, and the others have
letters and numbers after the name, which is the one I
need to install?? I have checked the dependencies for
the one without the numbers and letters and everything
is ok?

Sorry about all the questions.

Cheers

Mo



 --- David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk> wrote: > 
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I used "free" on the command line to check on
> memory
> > usage and about half of the 512MB is used uP????
> and
> > that was straight from booting up to the desktop
> with
> > no applications activated. Which command or
> > application can I use to check on which processes
> are
> > taking the memory and how do I free up some more??
> >
> 
> In terms of computers, the slowest thing is
> accessing data on a disk.
> Because of this, Linux attempts to cache as much
> data you've read from the
> disk as possible - so should you access the same
> file again, no disk reads
> are required, and performance is stellar. Try
> running Open Office, or
> Mozilla, once.... closing them down and then
> starting them up again -
> you'll find the second time will be a *lot* quicker
> - this is because the
> data is still held in memory, and all that was
> required as a bit of cpu
> work.
> 
> The Linux kernel will manage your memory usage, so
> there is always some
> available to load new programs into... so it's
> nothing to worry about.
> 
> In the off chance that you have a program whcih
> wishes to misbehave and
> gobble all your memory up, you'll firstly notice
> that everything goes dog
> slow, and the hard disk light stays on (kernel
> attempts to swap unused
> memory out to disk to free up ram). If you wish to
> find out who the greedy
> process is, the easiest way is to run "top" and
> press "M" when it's
> displaying a list of processes. If you wish to kill
> one, press "k" and
> then type in the process id (pid) when prompted. IF
> you wish to recreate
> this for your own pleasure, download / get hold of
> netscape communicator
> 4.5 - 4.7 and open a relatively large page (perhaps
> http://codepoets.co.uk/david/penguin.htm will do
> it).
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> David.
> -- 
> 
> http://codepoets.co.uk/david
> 
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