Memory use

[thedogfarted]

I have 512M RAM

btw gl-117 (sdl flight sim) failed to start just my previous post in 
this thread - Segmentation fault (SDL parachute deployed)

since then, my whole system behaves very strange:
1)mozilla completely ignores default and page character codings and 
displays all pages using Western (ISO-8859-1) :(
2)there is noticeable delay between the event and the sound associated 
with this event (both in games and gnome)
3)totem hangs every time i start it

probably there are more issues, i just haven't noticed them

actually all this wierdo stuff started after i installed alsa

i really consider to reinstal whole system tomorrow if i won't find any 
solution.

WipeOut wrote:
> thedogfarted wrote:
> 
>> does it uses swap space for accelerating everything too?? because now 
>> it has "eaten" all avilable memory and starts to "eat" swap space. 
>> Until this i've never seen anything in my swap partition, now there 
>> are 44M.
>>
>> just wondering if there is a way to see how much each program uses memory
> 
> 
> 
> How much RAM do you have? if its less than about 256MB I would expect it 
> to use a fair chunk of swap space..
> 
> To see what is using the memory you can use "top" and sort it by memory 
> usage or look at the output from "ps -aux"
> 
> Later..
> 
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>> WipeOut wrote:
>>
>>> thedogfarted wrote:
>>>
>>>> After reboot system monitor shows i have more that 50% memory free, 
>>>> but the amount of memory used is slowly rising and now it's 4h after 
>>>> reboot and i have 100% memory used :(
>>>>
>>>> Probably this is caused by some apps i use (possible candidates are 
>>>> xmms and xchat), is there some way to check it?
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if someone else have such issues.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, everyone will have this issue.. If their system is working 
>>> properly anyway.. :)
>>>
>>> As has been said many times before, linux makes use of all availible 
>>> memory for caching which makes things run faster..
>>>
>>> Later..
>>>
>>>
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