From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272071AbTG1CEV (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:04:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272404AbTG1CDK (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:03:10 -0400 Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.113]:33290 "HELO smtp016.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272071AbTG1CCK (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:02:10 -0400 From: Marino Fernandez To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Memory runs out fast with 2.6.0-test2 (and test1) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:17:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307272117.23398.mjferna@yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Everything works OK in my system... my only gripe is that I run out of memory quickly. I have a Fujitsu C-7651 Lifebook laptop, Pentium III, 512 Mb Ram, 300 Mb swap. When I start up (with KDE) I've alredy used 300 megs of ram. The if I open mozilla, and view some phostos with kuickshow, thats it, I use 700 Megs of physical and virtual memory... Looking at ps aux shows that 5% goes to each of the 5 mozilla processes, 3% for this, 2% for that... It is all accounted for in different ways. It is just that running under 2.4.21, with the same programs I very rarely use my swap memory, let alone use all my physical and swap memory. PS I had the same issue with test1. PPS Could it be that I am doing something stupid when I configure the kernel... This is what I have in my config file.. may be config_nohighmem?: # Processor type and features # CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y CONFIG_MICROCODE=m CONFIG_X86_MSR=m CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y CONFIG_MTRR=y