It really depends on what sort of programs you're running and what their memory footprint and use pattern is. Have you run 'top' to see which programs are using the most memory? If not, run 'top' at a shell prompt and press capital 'M' to sort the list by memory use. Some programs have memory leaks, too, and that will exacerbate the problem. Someone else may have suggestions for other tests to do to narrow down the source of this behaviour.
millward wrote:
Sometimes my hard drive grinds away like a coffee grinder. Nothing bad happens on the screen and everything runs just fine, but I wonder why it occasionally goes 'crazy' like that. Most of the time the hard drive runs nice and quiet. Its a 40 gig Samsung SV4084H. I know what swapping is and I can't think why it would be swaping. I've got 384 megs of memory and gave Red Hat 7.2 128 megs of swap. Perhaps its something I have not done. Is there some method to optimize memory or hard drive space?
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