Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[k01164@xxxxxxxxx (Ole Kofoed Hansen)]

At 16:41 31-05-00, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>         We have a Compaq m/c with Intel 810 chipset 550 MHz and 64 Mb
>Ram. I installed SuSE 6.3 on this m/c. We generally have more than one
>person working on the m/c. When more than one person logs into the m/c
>remotely and works on it, the system becomes slow. The 'top' and the
>'free' command show 64 Mb as the total memory and around 61 Mb as the
>used memory. So, i increased the ram to 192 Mb. Even then, the m/c does
>not seem to have picked up speed. Also, the 'top' command still shows
>around 187 Mb as total memory and around 182 Mb as used memory. I cannot
>understand how even after increasing the ram, 'top' shows the memory
>usage as almost equal to the total memory. I never encountered this
>problem in SuSE 5.3. I somehow feel SuSE 6.3 is not geared for multi
>users logging in to the same m/c and working remotely. I think the m/c
>configuration is pretty good for a server, but only the OS needs to
>utilise it.

I think you may have forgotten to configure swap space...

Please note that top and free will almost always show
almost all your memory is used. A lot of the used
memory is used by the kernel for buffers/caching
and it will be released if something else needs
memory.

Try showing us the output from 'free'.

Regards

Ole Kofoed Hansen
okh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ICQ# 25773325


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