too many process running

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 10:30:43PM +0800, Yong Chu Eu () wrote:
> Anyone know which process is not important? i always hang when i open
> too many program.

All of the processes are important in some way or another. When you say that
you hang, what do you mean exactly? Does the whole computer lock up? How
much RAM do you have, and how much swap space? (Run "free" and send the
output. Don't get panicked about small numbers in the actual 'free' column,
though.)

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