On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:34:43AM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > That might be. Which program is a good presentation tool? Some that > graphically shows me what all the RAM is used for. > I use it to get an approximate picture of what is going on. The individual > numbers are not important, but rather what is going on in general. vmstat is useful, if global. Used in conjunction with top you have all the information you need. > I started to use gmemusage when my system started trashing, and I just didn't > know what caused it. gmemusage shows me immediately which application is > trying to grab a lot of RAM. I can also see if it is something I intended, or > if it is something unexpected, or created by some crazy web page. I find that > some applications use a lot of RAM, and maybe avoid them for certain common > tasks. Well, it's more that they just allocate a lot of pixmaps. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> KDE: Konquering a desktop near you - http://www.kde.org
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