Re: RAM economy tips
It sounds as though you do indeed have a memory leak somewhere rather than
just a misunderstanding of the memory statistic numbers. However, I'm
quite certain that the problem has nothing to do with the kernel, but
rather a leak in one of the apps you are running. If you say that even
after shutting down all the apps you are still thrashing, then I would
suspect the problem is probably with KDE or one of the libraries it uses
or something with X. Also, occassionally when closing an app that has a
problem, even though the window disappears, sometimes the program
continues running and using your memory. Use top to check this. Rebooting
should not be necessary. See if restarting X solves the memory problem.
Gerry
> 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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