Re: Sarge - Minimum System Requirements
Dave Tapuska wrote:
>I had the main distribution installed on my P166 with
>64mb of RAM running for the longest time. With a crash
>of the harddrive; I installed Sarge being that it very
>close to going gold. Running the machine for the past
>
>
Use `free` to check memory usage. For example, I have,
adamm@mira:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1037364 899884 137480 0 28172 128532
-/+ buffers/cache: 743180 294184
Swap: 0 0 0
So according to this I have 294M free, even though top would say 137M.
Of course things like the following don't help,
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3596 adamm 15 0 347m 205m 33m S 0.0 20.3 4:05.99 mozilla-thunder
3974 adamm 15 0 108m 99m 16m S 0.0 9.8 2:06.26 gnome-panel
7964 adamm 16 0 112m 86m 21m S 0.0 8.5 35:54.24 gedit
15160 adamm 15 0 136m 83m 34m S 0.0 8.2 25:38.22 firefox-bin
1335 root 5 -10 182m 47m 147m S 1.0 4.7 228:22.06 XFree86
23:56:01 up 16 days, 12:01, 22 users, load average: 1.30, 1.28, 1.13
WTF all of these use soooo much memory, I have no idea. (especially to
read email) or gedit, lol.
restarting mozilla-thunderbird made it use,
27791 adamm 15 0 161m 36m 32m S 0.0 3.6 0:04.85 mozilla-thunder
There seem to be some *major* memory leaks there. I suspect there are
memory leaks thoughout the GUI interface (X on up). When I started the
box two weeks ago it only used up about 200M with the same programs
running... Oh, and during the course of writing this paragraph,
27791 adamm 15 0 163m 38m 32m S 10.3 3.8 0:09.89 mozilla-thunder
Then there is my DNS server,
dns:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 27404 19000 8404 0 264 10480
-/+ buffers/cache: 8256 19148
Swap: 0 0 0
Quite a constrast, eh? :) 8M used.
- Adam
PS. No, I don't have buggy hardware.
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