Re: SuSE 10.1 - Memory hog?

Malcolm Street wrote:
SkippyBoy wrote:

I experienced the same thing. I read somewhere that if you disable the
Beagle Indexer it will stop thrashing the hard drive and free up some
resources. You can also kill the ZMD update tool if you are using
Yast/Smart/Apt-get...

Got it in 1!

Beagle and ZMD were the culprits - each process associated with them was
using 6% of RAM according to ps -aux!!!

6% is nothing. RAM use also means nothing when looking at speed. What
you should look for is CPU usage and disk access usage. Most likely they
use that up a lot as well.
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houghi
They say pesticides have been linked to low sperm counts.
In my opinion if you have bugs down there that are so bad
you need to use a pesticide, you're not gonna get laid anyway.
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