This is actually a good pint to think about. My friend finally gave up on slick new Mandrake and got back to his beloved Slackware because of this huge memory hog thing. I was running RH 8.0 at a time when, in discussion, I said that it really went good for me to add 256 MB RAM more (now 512 MB). He did not understood since he stated he's running Slackware (8.1 and now 9.0) on 256 MB just fine, with plenty of resources free at any given moment. Also, While in Mandrake, when he plays AVI the system eats more than 70% of CPU, and in Slackware he stated never got up to 10%. I am now on RH 9, and after boot my memory is almost half full (cca 230 MB), and I haven't even started to do some serious work. On Äet, 2003-04-24 at 08:26, Jason KRISCH wrote: > Is anyone else seeing this: > > My laptop has 512MB RAM. When I first boot into X, about 25% of my > memory is being used - I can live with that. Then I open some apps, say > Mozilla, and I jump up to 59% memory utilization. If I close all the > running apps, my % of memory utilization NEVER decreases. If I open up > apps again, it just gets worse and "builds" from where it was. Today > the laptop was running for about 8 or 9 hours and before I shut it down > I was pegged at 100% memory utilization with no apps running. I used > top and the system monitor to try to figure out what was using all of > it, but nothing really stood out as using a lot. I plan on doing some > more digging and trying to figure out where / what the problem is - I > just thought I would throw this out there to see if anyone else is > experiencing similar issues. > > Thanks, > > Jed > >
