Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:57:56 +0100 | From | Karsten Patzwaldt <> | Subject | Re: not enough memory |
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Samuli Kaski wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Karsten Patzwaldt wrote: > > > A short time ago, I watched my free memory. I recognized the following: The > > longer the system is up, the fewer free memory is left. The used memory grows > > and grows, but if I close some applications, the memory isn't freed, is it? So I > > have 78 MB of my 80 MB used. Is this a bug or a performance-feature? If it is > > the last, how can I switch it off? > > You could begin by telling more information: kernel version, used > .config, hardware configuration and used applications. And how you > measured the "used" memory is a important keyfactor too. > > People just can't help, if they don't know what the problem is.
Yes, right, but I don't think that this helps you, because I think that it is the last one (performance feature), and that this is included in most kernel-versions... I listed the necessary informations at the end of the mail.
> > -- > Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi > Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. Applications: most of the X Stuff (there are so many programs, can't remember them all), kernel-version 2.0.33, no patches, kernel-config included. HW:
Pentium 150 Quantum Fireball 3.2 GB and WDC 1.5 GB 4X-Speed-Noname-CD-ROM-Drive S3-Grafx-Adapter AHA-152x-compatible-SCSI-adapter with flatbed scanner as the only device 80 MB EDO-RAM -- Karsten Patzwaldt kpa@gmx.net "Wisdom is earned... not given."CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KERNELD=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_M586=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=y CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_ISA=y CONFIG_NE2000=y CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_SMB_FS=y CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SB=y CONFIG_MPU401=y CONFIG_AUDIO=y CONFIG_MIDI=y CONFIG_YM3812=y CONFIG_PROFILE=y
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