On Thursday 19 May 2011 17:32:35 John Andersen wrote:
On 5/19/2011 8:51 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jonius <cjonius@gmail.com> wrote:
I installed opensuse 11.4 and running KDE 4.6 in my laptop, but�every time�I boot it after some few minutes everything the system used to hang, I try to find out the problem only to find out that there was no memory at all left even before starting any intense applications like virtual box, etc. I had only 50,000K.
Where are you reading these stats from? top will show several different things. Just because it show very little free memory doesn't mean that's the case(buffers and disk caching are included in the totals).
What's the amount of the swap file being used?
This was going to be my question too, but Larry beat me to it.
Almost any time people report "low memory" its because they are applying windows knowledge to linux.
In the linux world, any memory not used is considered wasted, and will be put to use for file caching and backgrounding tasks.
Unless your swap is being heavily used, just stop fretting about memory, and find out what processes are using up your CPU cycles. Just let Linux handle the memory and don't even look there.
yes good point had forgotten about that bit but the machine just get so slow it all but stops , closing an xterm topk 23 mins last night no disk activity so it was not an indexing issue . I suspect it is an issue with the kernel update but have not got the laptop setup for multiple kernels so i will have to reinstall from the dvd to try it out Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 18:00 up 2 days 17:55, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.22, 0.16 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org