Problems with memory usage
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Hi,
I have an interesting problem
with one computer I'm installing debian on and am wondering if anybody else ran
into this problem.
Trying to install Debian 3.0r1
or 3.0r2 "Woody"
Computer
Specifics,
256MB Ram 66 MHz
FSB
20GB Hard Drive
ide
Intel Celeron
700MHz
Swap space ~530MB (Double the
RAM)
Filesystem
Ext3
Problems I'm noticing ssh
connections to the computer freeze after doing a long listing of a directory,
like /usr/lib
Interesting note I found out
was my meminfo produced an output like:
total memory
259MB used memory: 252MB Free:
7MB
I thought this was quite odd as
nothing was running this was the result just after a reboot. Mysql and
Apache are installed but are not configured yet to start on
boot-up.
I compared this computer to
another one I installed debian 3.0r1 "Woody" on a little while
back
Computer
Specifics,
256MB Ram 100 MHz
FSB
20GB Hard Drive
ide
Pentium III
550MHz
Swap space ~530MB (Double the
RAM)
Filesystem
Ext3
I haven't had any problems with
this system as of yet its meminfo output produced
total memory 259MB
used memory: 192MB free 67MB
This computer is also running
Mysql and Apache as well as some other local programs and seems to be running
smoothly.
Curious on what I could
investigate on the first system that it could be using so much memory, I would
expect to take a speed hit but the memory usage I would think should be somewhat
similar.
Thanks in
advance.
Brent
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