RAM and Swap full? [solved]

[Guest thiedest]

Hello, i'm a newbie, so sorry if my question seems stupid...

 

I've installed mandriva 2006 in dualboot a few weeks ago and I can't use firefox and thunderbird simultaneously(sorry for my english, my mother's tongue is french). They use so much memory that after a 10 minutes my ram is full, my laptop slows a little bit, but that's ok. but it continues to increase memory usage, until my swap also is full... and my computer freezes. I don't know what's happening, and what I should do. it also happens when I use openoffice...

 

under win, I had a utility that could optmize memory load and cpu usage. does that kind of programs exist under linux?

 

oh, i forgot to give you my config:

 

fujistu siemens a7640W

amd athlon mobile 64 3200+

Ram 480mb

HD 60GB(10 for linux)

swap 1Gb

Gfx Sis m760(shared memory)

 

thx

 

thiedest

 

p.s. i'm also not able to play midi files... should i open another topic for that?

[lavaeolus]

As far as I know thunderbird is not correctly installed by mandy 2006

 

See

 

http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...Linux2006Errata

 

Issues with Mozilla based software when set up by the installer

 

maybe your problem is related to this.

 

You could uninstall firefox and thunderbird and reinstall them again

 

for ram and cpu-usage optimization I don't think that something like this is really needed on linux

 

For the midi problem I would recommend to open a new topic for this (sorry can't help you with the midi problem)

 

btw. I'm not a native english speaker, as many others here, so no problem

[Guest thiedest]

searching through mandy bugzilla, I found out that kat was eating all the memory.

Kat's bug

 

in fact, with firefox, thunderbird and openoffice, the issue is bigger, because these progs use up a lot of memory too.

 

now i disabled kat and everything's fine...

 

i'm now waiting for this kat bug to be solved

 

thx for the help