Re: Memory problem with Red Hat 9 on laptop with 64 MB RAM
From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:20:00 -0500
Crooked River wrote:
> I'm running Red Hat 9 (standard "workstation" installation) on an HP
> Pavilion 5210 laptop with 64 MB RAM. It works fine, but everything is
> very, very slow. Sometimes when I have not touched it for several
> minutes, I can hear and see that the hard drive is still being
> accessed.
>
> Is it possible to shut off some of the processes that seem to grab
> memory (even though they are sleeping)? If so, how, so that they
> don't have to be shut off manually at each reboot?
>
> The Gnome system monitor shows:
> CPU used jumping back and forth between 2.97% and 15.84%
> Memory Used 52.9 MB Total 59.9 MB
> Swap Used 53.6 MB Total 188 MB
>
> Processes:
> bonobo-activation-server 504 K
> eggcups 2.4 MB
> fam 384 K
> gconfd-2 6.9 MB
> gnome-panel 6.9 MB
> gnome-session 3.4 MB
> ssh-agent 236 K
> gnome-system-monitor 5.0 MB
> gnome-system-monitor 4.8 MB (I had it open in 2 windows)
You might surely want to turn this off, or reconfigure it.
This wakes up from time to time to update its display, so you will be
wasting 10MB keeping it in memory. If you make it update every 30 seconds
or so, it will page less (every 30 seconds) and it might help some.
> magicdev 1.4 MB
> metacity 3.5 MB
> nautilus 6.8 MB
> notification-area-applet 2.2 MB
> pam-panel-icon 1.6 MB
> python 5.8 MB
> xscreensaver 624 K
>
> Thanks!
>
Also, you might want to look at top to see what of this is already paged
out. I find top to be much more useful than the gnome system monitor.
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