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Re: RAM 95% used



El dom, 29-04-2007 a las 21:26 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty escribió:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:32:17PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > Roberto C. Sánchez (<roberto@connexer.com>) wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:07:35PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> But it isn't handling the memory well. Everything is rubbish and
> > >> sluggish right from start-up. Something is wrong
> > >> 
> > > well, how much total physical RAM do you have?  How much swap?  How
> > > much swap is being used?
> > 
> > And of course, how fast is your CPU?
> > 
> 
> I think he said Celeron (doesn't that mean slow as celery, i.e.
> low-power?), 256 MB and no swap.
> 
> Something:
> If you don't have a spare partition for swap, you may want to try a swap
> file.  There are things in memory that on a system with swap get swapped
> out when memory gets tight that aren't used much anyway.  Having a swap
> file would free up memory for your applications.
> 
> You can also use top to see what apps specifically are hogging the
> memory.

Inside 'top' press O (yes, upper case) and then "n" to order the list
according to memory usage.

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