Guest metz2000 Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 Go into the console in Linux and type free. Hit ENTER. Highlight all the 'free' text and copy and paste it into a post with [ code ] before, and [ /code ] after (without the spaces). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 [cloakedpenguin@localhost cloakedpenguin]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2065792 206452 1859340 0 10784 88092 -/+ buffers/cache: 107576 1958216 Swap: 248968 0 248968 Is this what you wanted? I have a terminal window open, Ximian Evolution, Mozilla, and Gkrellm. Ahything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest metz2000 Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 Yeah, that's it. You're only using 10% of it! Nice though, wish I had 2Gb. :) I bet your machine runs like a beauty :D Never needs the swap partition anyhow... :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 Yes it does (knock on wood) oh lord I hope I didn't just jinx myself! :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 Well, I just upgraded a bit, with prices in freefall and my warranty on my first stick of 512MB expiring; wanted to make sure it would run with company :) $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 904416 291264 613152 0 16028 133152 -/+ buffers/cache: 142084 762332 Swap: 1044184 0 1044184 I installed memtest (urpmi memtest-86 or so, it installs in lilo, you run it instead of booting linux) and the memory passed (took an hour of testing for all different patterns to finish) so that was nice. BTW yesterday installed mdk9.0 on a PIII 667MHz with 64MB of ram, and it took a good 2 hours!!! That same install takes only 50mins on my girlfriends duron700 (384MB sdr ram).... Oh yeah, I currently have evolution, opera, vnc, bluefish, gkrellm and a bunch of terminals open, running kde. Guess if I start editing with Gimp the mem usage will go up, but don't think I'll have to get new memory soon ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Kewl! Just remember you can never not have enough ram! I am the Ram Hog! At least that's what Steve at CompUSA calls me because I've always gotten his assistance in choosing what parts I should buy for my computers (eventhough I buy the majority of them from the web, I still buy enough stuff from the to keep them in business). My next step is buying another gig of ram for my # 2 computer. After I replace the hard drive, DVD-RW drive, and CD-RW drives. And of course see if I can order another panel for it. But that's all discussed in another thread on this board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest duir66 Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 905048 473568 431480 0 105188 144092 -/+ buffers/cache: 224288 680760 Swap: 1044184 0 1044184 I'm right behind ya, CloakedPenguin. When people ask me "How much memory does my computer need?", I always reply with the question, "How much does it hold?" 1GB Swap file is for those just in case moments. he he he :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 Yup... there is no such thing as too little memory. When I lowered my memory from 512 MB to 256 MB (because of a problematic MB), I can feel it.. I think I'll wait until DDR Prices drop some more before upgrading my memory again since I just spend a few hundred dollars updating my computer to speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 I know that KDE-3.1 (on redhat-8.0) on a IBM T22 laptop (1GHz, 128MB PC100 SDRAM) runs fine. And I usually have 5-6 tabs open in a konqueror window at KDE startup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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