Memory Mangament Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

From: Ahmed <civilized_tafeely_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:27:12 +0100
Hi,
I have 160Mb of SDRAM (PC100) on a 233Mhz CyrixInstead machine and I seem to
have memory mangament problems. The BIOS indicates I have 160, so does the
BSD bootstrap program.

When I launch GNOME 2.2 everythings is good as gold untill I open the System
monitor program. It says that I have 149 Mb of RAM which is fine ( 4Mb of
video..and the rest...god knows).

I open every program I have and after 107Mb the machine starts to swap with
about 50Mb left unused!!

I recompliled the GENERIC kernal for the sake of it really (Im still an
amature) I didn't mess with the configuration files or anything (I just
don't know how!!).

Is this normal or mismanagement of memory in the 5.1 version of the
excellent FreeBSD kernel??
Received on Thu Jul 24 2003 - 10:27:25 UTC

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