Slow performence

[Aaron Matteson]

Ron Henderson became daring and sent these 1.0K bytes,
> 1.) while running X I am using about 300mb of memory. This would be ok,
> but I only have 320mb. Needless to say when I try to run a game, or any
> application, performance is very slow. How can I lower my memory use? 

One of the reasons linux is faster then windows in a lot of corners is
because everything you do and see is loaded into RAM, regardless of how
much memory you have linux will eventually consume it all. As i type
this my workstation has 2GB of RAM with 99% utilization.

This topic has been touched on before on this list, i would search the
list archives for a deeper explaination if thats what you want. This
topic pops up fairly frequently so there shouldn't be much trouble
finding it.

Hope this helps.

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