You are not logged in.

Memory usage

Dear visitor, welcome to KDE-Forum.org. If this is your first visit here, please read the Help. It explains in detail how this page works. To use all features of this page, you should consider registering. Please use the registration form, to register here or read more information about the registration process. If you are already registered, please login here.

valentin_nils

Beginner

  • "valentin_nils" started this thread

Posts: 15

  • Send private message

1

Tuesday, June 3rd 2003, 3:45am

Memory usage

Hi Hardware fans ;-)

I am trying to figure out how Linux is using the memory. I realised that on my computer f.e Dell Inspiron 2600 Laptop sometimes the processes are lightning fast and sometimes slow.

When I do a "top" then I can see that anytime it is fast it uses most memory and only a bit is left free, while when its slow it shows still a lot of free memory, but doesnt use a lot.

This are just 2 lines of the output from the top-command

Mem: 506540K av, 383484K used, 123056K free, 0K shrd, 41904K buff
Swap: 530136K av, 0K used, 530136K free 212080K cached

The above output is when its fast. When its slow it becomes something like

Mem: 506540K av, 205564K used, 300976K free, 0K shrd, 15452K buff
Swap: 530136K av, 0K used, 530136K free 102980K cached

(sample).

Any idea how I can influence this or if this is a bug ? Is this a memory allocation issue ?

Any replies much apprechiated.

Best regards

Nils Valentin
Best regards

Nils Valentin
Tokyo/Japan

nils(at)knowd.co.jp
http://www.knowd.co.jp/staff/nils