Ron Henderson became daring and sent these 1.0K bytes, > 1.) while running X I am using about 300mb of memory. This would be ok, > but I only have 320mb. Needless to say when I try to run a game, or any > application, performance is very slow. How can I lower my memory use? One of the reasons linux is faster then windows in a lot of corners is because everything you do and see is loaded into RAM, regardless of how much memory you have linux will eventually consume it all. As i type this my workstation has 2GB of RAM with 99% utilization. This topic has been touched on before on this list, i would search the list archives for a deeper explaination if thats what you want. This topic pops up fairly frequently so there shouldn't be much trouble finding it. Hope this helps. -- /\o Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us /\/ GnuPG key fingerprint is in the header /\ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, / \ it should be hard to understand! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! \ / X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander / \ are lost --jrr tolkien
