RE: RAM economy tips (OT: pre?)
What does the 'pre' mean in 2.2.18pre21? I'm using that kernel too.
-Mike
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Michael Marziani
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Voigt [mailto:f1k@gmx.de]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:11 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RAM economy tips
> Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike..
>
> Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it
> better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used
> to speed things up, cache things you might need and re-used
> when you request something in particular..
>
> Unless everything slows to a crawl, swaps like mad or runs
> out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and
> maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something
> useful too)
In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like
that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and
images, it dips into swap, and it does that even when I close most apps. So
before I can continue working I have to reboot. This shouldn't be necessary.
Is it because I have a 'pre' kernel? I wondered why they made the
2.2.18pre21
the default kernel for potato when they otherwise put software in it that
are
sometimes not usable because they're so ancient.
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