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Old 11-22-2003, 01:47 PM   #1
tombomb300
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Question RH9 Memory Hungry? Can I SLim it down?

I hav Heard that read hat 9 is a Memory sucker and just running Fluxbox, and mozilla I am using up 218MB of my Memory(Total 256) I dont quite like that . . . . . , is there a wat i can free up memory?
 
Old 11-22-2003, 02:17 PM   #2
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it won't be using that much. most of it will be cached data, not active... check the output of "free" and the manpage to explain what it means.
 
Old 11-23-2003, 04:01 AM   #3
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howzit

Try switching off services that u not using r going to use

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