memory issues on amd64

dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi All

I have an odd issue with memory. I seem to be using memory up quite quickly even when my machine is just sitting with just x and gnome running.

This casues problems later when trying to use other apps and getting told that I have run out of memory. When I run top it just shows that x is using about 2.5 to 3.0 % of memory.

A fre machine specs to help:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1 Gb of RAM
and plenty of hard disk space.

Any ideas how I can solve this issue.

David

Aperculum · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

open top and press ctrl+m to order all stuff my memory usage

now you can see which process is eating all the memory, if it's nothing important you can just kill it
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dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi

It appears that X and gnome are using a lot of memory. Is there anyway I can slime this down without changing to a lightweight desktop.

It appears that my desktop is using a lot of memory. Along with firefox which was using nearly 5% of my memory.

Any ideas.