[Tfug] Memory woes

[erich]

See:
         http://www.suspend2.net/

      I too, have a machine with over 512M of RAM, and discovered that
the kernel
wasn't using all of it. My box now has:

                2.6.13-suspend2-r4 #2 SMP Wed Dec 27 18:55:33 MST 2006

      This kernel is able to exploit all 1.5G of memory that I have.
With kde
cups, gimp, and hplip. The kernel currently using 1.0G.

                                                                                               
Erich

Christopher Robbins wrote:

>I've been running SUSE for quite some time now, and I've never had any real
>issue with it.  My Athlon64 3000+ combined with a meager 512mb of RAM was
>good enough for even
>the most memory-hungry apps.
>
>But all that has suddenly changed.  I recently installed SUSE 10.2 x86-64,
>and my computer has slowed down considerably.  The stupid *#@#$* thing
>thrashes about and everything works at a
>standstill.  I recently added a gig of memory, pushing the system to
>1.25gigs, and nothing's helped.  I don't know where to start digging,
>because
>everything seems screwy.  KDE processes are taking
>100-150 mb of memory.  I've got (at present time) 2 ssh connections, and
>sshd is reporting 120mb of memory devoted to each process.  The mythtv
>backend is swallowing another 400mb.
>
>I don't understand - this hasn't been a problem in the past.  I don't think
>it's a window manager issue either, though I do understand that my use of
>KDE may be a factor...
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>-Chris
>  
>