[svlug] Red Hat 7.1 and Windows

[Mark S Bilk]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:29:52AM -0700, David Correa wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Steve M Bibayoff wrote:
>> Fisrt off, what does top say? Is most of your memory being used by X? I
>> actually never seen X use more then 20 megs, but it could happen.
>
>X running (GNOME and and 2 X windows, no Netscape)
>[tech at onix tech]$ free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>Mem:        514040     422792      91248          0      13176     270464
>
>Same comp with out X
>[tech at onix tech]$ cat mem.use
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>Mem:        514040     391564     122476          0      12980     260864
 
Top directly tells how much memory is being used by each
program; press "M" to sort the listing by memory usage, and
"f" to see more fields.
 
X on my SuSE 6.4 system is using 35MB of memory with 29MB
in RAM when viewing one desktop, but switching to another
desktop with more windows changes the usage to 37MB with
32MB in RAM.
 
Netscape does slowly suck up memory.  I just kill and restart
it once a day (or if it freezes).
 
I've got 186 processes running in 8 kde desktops, including
23 konsoles, 5 xterms, 20 Midnight Commanders (mc), RealPlayer,
slrn, mutt, and sundry other stuff, in 64MB of RAM.  The system 
(including X) has been running continuously for 60 days
without rebooting.
 
I love Linux!