HI,

I have a quick question about RAM memory. i'm running FC4 and a few days ago I had my computer start lagging more and more until it just got frozen (this has happened about 4 times before), I tried looking a the system monitor and the ksysgaurd information to see if I could maybe fid a program that has a memory leak in it or something...so far I can't find any problems the only thing I noticed is that out of my 512 ram 466 is being used used for cache. Is that bad?...I'm still trying to recreate the problem but i can't figure out what it is exactly..most of the time I was running yum when i happened.

any suggestions on what i should do to trouble shoot the prolem would be nice too

thanx in advace
Boomba

you paid your money for 512Mb of ram. now, would you like to use an O/S that :

a) requires everysingle byte of that
b) uses 50mb of that, and never touches the rest
c) uses as much as required, and uses anything spare to cache old data in case it's needed again at short notice, freeing that cached memory instantly if a running processes needs more memory space

i'd go for c personally.

so then i guess the caching is not whats causing the lagging leading lockups

than for the info, any way of trying you narrow down my freeze problem (still havent recreated it)