Once again someone forgets the poor owners of (actually not that much) older mainboards which cannot cache more than a (for today) modest amount of memory. Adding RAM to such systems slow them down rather than speed them up... Lionel --- jack craig <jackc@imageintegration.com> wrote: > CRV§ADER/KY wrote: > > > >16MB card, that's still not too bad. > > > > > But TOTAL RAM is still 128MB, and those 45MB are subtracted from it! > > you are missing an important point i think. > that is, you may have 128mb of physical ram, but linux is virtually > paged memory. that is, the swap partition is used to swap in and > out large processes sharing the physical memory between many large > processes whose gross sum may be well above the physical memory. > > naturally i should say that excessive swapping can be a performance > problem too, but a better solution is adding memory. i think most > folks will agree that video oriented hosts should be RAM rich. > > jackc... > > > is it a bug in top? How can I check the > > REAL RAM locked by X11? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jack Craig ImageIntegration 831-684-1375 > jackc@imageintegration.com > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
