Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-10,: Re: not enough memory

# Re: not enough memory

Karsten Patzwaldt (kpa@gmx.net)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:57:56 +0100

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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

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    Karsten Patzwaldt                                                   kpa@gmx.net
                            "Wisdom is earned... not given."
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