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. Raghav -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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@post.cybercity.dk ICQ# 25773325 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, I had the same problem with 6.2 running on a P III with 450 Mhz with 256 Mb Ram. I had configured a swap partition for 512 Mb since i have 256 Mb ram and i though it is better to have swap as twice the main memory. The output of 'free' command for this m/c is total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 257732 252808 4924 44212 108032 110808 -/+ buffers/cache: 33968 223764 Swap: 566960 0 566960 Raghav Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
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@post.cybercity.dk ICQ# 25773325
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