John Summerfield wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> John Summerfield wrote: >>> Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> John Summerfield wrote: >>>> >>>>>> As soon as the systems were up I checked top and lsmod. Now, this >>>>>> wasn't >>>>>> entirely one-to-one since on my F8 install I did use LVM while I >>>>>> didn't on >>>>>> the slackware. Also, slackware is at 2.6.21.5 while F8 is 2.6.23.0. >>>>> That should advantage Slack. >>>> How so? >>> You were looking at RAM use. no needed lvm modules means slack might use >>> less RAM on that account. >> >> Except that slack is using MORE RAM even though F8 is actually loading >> more > I noticed. > >> modules and running more services (forgot F8 was running ntpd and >> sendmail). >> So, I find it comforting that F8 is using less RAM (F8 147.9MB v.s. >> Slack >> 179.4MB) even though it is doing more. Guess I have to look back at my >> original post...could be I got the numbers reversed in it? >> > Would be good to check, just so as to not leave anyone wondering or > misinformed. OK... I did check and originally said.... "Now, the really interesting thing was that top showed F8 to be using 147.9MB out of 512MB while slackware was consuming 179.4MB." So, I got it right the first time.... So, it would seem that a default install of slackware consumes more RAM than a default install of F8-T3 even when F8-T3 is running more services. Comforting.... -- A prediction is worth twenty explanations. -- K. Brecher
