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I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro, Updated as of today, DMA is on. Overall, system seems sluggish. When running Personal Edition, system worked great (this is a clean Pro install).
Please advise.[QUOTE]
Last edited by mikedeatworld; 10-25-2004 at 07:28 PM.
I wouldn't consider this a memory issue until your swap starts thrashing.
I suggest you search the board for other memory issues, you'll find that linux manages memory somewhat differently than you may be used to. I don't think this is the source for your sluggesh system performance.
Take a look at the total number of processes being run on your machine.
a few useful commands:
Code:
ps -aux |wc -l
[total number of processes]
ps -aux | less[lists the currently running processes in the less pager]
When I ran the command you suggessted, the output seem to display process and their mem allocation. Just a rough estimate, it did not total my system RAM.
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