From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ankit Jain Subject: Re: Heavy load of graphics Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 07:35:39 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041006063539.6889.qmail@web52909.mail.yahoo.com> References: <416271A2.8030304@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <416271A2.8030304@verizon.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jim Nelson Cc: newbie thanks this is the output i am using redhat linux 9.0 "I know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons (PCMCIA, ISDN, etc) that are started by default - have you used chkconfig or redhat-config-services to shut off unneded services?" as u said...how to do this. i am intrested in closing these services thanks again [ankit@Ankit ankit]$ cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 120741888 118902784 1839104 0 1695744 74162176 Swap: 534601728 69509120 465092608 MemTotal: 117912 kB MemFree: 1796 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 1656 kB Cached: 36536 kB SwapCached: 35888 kB Active: 65144 kB ActiveAnon: 37092 kB ActiveCache: 28052 kB Inact_dirty: 4852 kB Inact_laundry: 6728 kB Inact_clean: 1068 kB Inact_target: 15556 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 117912 kB LowFree: 1796 kB SwapTotal: 522072 kB SwapFree: 454192 kB [ankit@Ankit ankit]$ ps -al F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 R 501 4306 4279 0 75 0 - 778 - pts/0 00:00:00 ps [ankit@Ankit ankit]$ --- Jim Nelson wrote: > Ankit Jain wrote: > > >hi > > > >well i am using linux 9.0 kernel 2.4 ver. 128 Mb > RAM > > > >i have seen not only on this sytem but the other > one > >having 512 Mb RAM the most of the memory is lost or > >taken by graphics or xserver. on my system around > 90% > >is occupied by the xsever and on the sys with 512 > Mb > >RAM around 70% is occupied. how to reduce this > load. i > >oculd not get any article or stuff relate to this . > if > >we can do something in kernel or in some way reduce > >this load while working in GUI envt > > > >thanks > > > >Ankit > > > > > > Could you please post your ps -Al, /proc/meminfo, > and lspci output? I > know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons (PCMCIA, > ISDN, etc) that are > started by default - have you used chkconfig or > redhat-config-services > to shut off unneded services? > > The kernel also uses a lot of free memory for I/O > caching - even my P4 > w/ 1GB RAMBUS shows 90% memory consumption in > /proc/meminfo. Caching is > a low-priority memory allocation - when the system > needs memory for > active processes, it should give the memory to the > process. > > BTW, unless you are using a framebuffer kernel-level > driver, X is > handled almost exclusively in userland. On SPARC32 > (for example) > framebuffers are pretty much the only way to get X > working, but mostly, > XFree86 and the X.org server that comes with FC2 use > mostly user-space > drivers. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at > http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs