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RAM & swap


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Hi there, i have some questions regurding my memory usage.

I'm running Gnome 2.6 on a pretty slow mashine (see below) and that is what my system monitor shows:

 

 

- sould swap space be partially full when i still got some room in RAM?

- what is exact porpuse of swap?

- the high peaks in cpu history => me moving a window, it can jump even up to 100%. Is that normal?

 

 

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I don't think there is anything unusual about the ram/swap split. I'd be more concerned about the cpu spike however; that's not normal. To find out more about what processes are using your ram and cpu cycles open a console and run:

 

$ top

 

That gives a running tally by process of the % cpu and memory usage from highest to lowest. To get a more accurate account of memory usage run:

 

$ free

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