Re: [TCLUG:5069] out of memory

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

I have a hunch that your swap partition isn't being used.  What do you see
when you type 'cat /proc/meminfo' ? It should give you something like: 

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  395776000 388272128  7503872 54792192 103297024 183984128
Swap: 133885952   880640 133005312
MemTotal:    386500 kB
MemFree:       7328 kB
MemShared:    53508 kB
Buffers:     100876 kB
Cached:      179672 kB
SwapTotal:   130748 kB
SwapFree:    129888 kB

If the Swap entries are 0, then your swap space is not being used.  A
possible cause might be that the swap info is missing from /etc/fstab.

On Sun, 4 Apr -1 rhendrickson@usinternet.com wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've just completed my first install of Openlinux 1.3
> I have much to learn. I'm hoping for a pointer or two.
> When I use Netscape to browse the help manual all goes well until I hit the fourth link. KDE crashes and the system leaves a not so nice message that I've run out of memory.
> The IBM 300gl I'm using has 32meg of memory and I created a 128M swap partition.
> 
> 2-
> The system will occassionaly lockup when I try to use a graphics program under KDE or X86.
> 
> The system is unresponsive to either the mouse or the keyboard.
> 
> Thanks for any hints...
> Rick
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> 
> 
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