On Tue, March 8, 2005 10:22 am, Neal Wilkinson said: > Is there a GUI that does this? I have 384mb of ram and my machine sits > with 13mb free when the desktop loads. As you might imagine this is > sluggish. I'm quite sure I have a bunch of stuff running that I can > shutoff but haven't figured out how in Linux yet. Where should I start? > Thanks. > Aside from what the other people responded with, you could also run ntsysv from the console or system-config-services. How are you determining "13mb free"? One misunderstanding is the amount of memory free. If you have memory available, the OS attempts to use as much of it as it can for various functions. This doesn't necessarily mean you're running out of memory. As applications need memory, the OS basically allocates it. -- Regards, Matt Florido
