Re: Swap always full
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:22:10 -0400
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:57:30PM +0100, James Burke wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:40:17 -0500
> > David Berg <drberg1000@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It seems that with in 15 minutes of logging into my account I'm out of
> > > swap and low on physical memory.
> > >
> > > Swap partition is 64 Meg and I have 128 Megs of Physical. I'm
> > > upgrading to 1Gig very shortly but would still like to know why I'm
> > > swapping so much.
> > >
> >
> > Debian seems to use alot of memory on mine. Running fluxbox,firefox,gaim and gkrellm its already used 50mb of swap after 3 hours, I've got 256mb of physical memory & 1gb of swap.
> >
> > I know linux should use all the available memory but it should be swapping with just a few applications running.
> >
> > XFree86 and firefox seem to be the biggest users of memory using 28.3% and 23.8% for the memory.
> >
>
> I have a laptop with 256 MB, and while not a powerhouse, it can run
> Firefox and OOo under WindowMaker without getting into swap (as long as
> Firefox is not open too long, with the memory leak and all). It is not
> surprising that the OP, with only 128 MB, is always getting into swap.
>
Thats the difference, I've got firefox running all the time. X is still using more memory than firefox though. I've used slackware with this laptop without swapping.
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