Re: Can't install software!

From: Dagza (spam_at_icthelp.biz)
Date: 10/12/03 

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:05:50 +0100

Hyperion wrote:

> The only time I had this problem, it appeared that I'd run out of memory
> including swap. I can't remember why. I'm not an heavy user, so I was
> amazed myself. (I think it was after three days left open Opera)
> Anyhow, I rebooted and everything was fine again. I couldn't figure out
> another solution except waiting until the kernel should free memory, but I
> couldn't wait for that.
> (SuSE 8.0)

Thanks for your reply. I have rebooted and the issue remains :-(. I have
plenty of ram but would be interested to know how to find how much ram /
swap i am using / have free.

Thanks again for your reply 

-- 
darren

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